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Degas: a Crater Painted Blue
[/caption] This image, acquired by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft on December 12, 2011, reveals the blue coloration of the 32-mile (52-km)…
Bright Peaks, Dark Shadows
[/caption] The 68-mile (109-km) -wide Amaral crater on Mercury reveals its brightly-tipped central peaks in this image, acquired by NASA's…
Kuiper’s Color Close-Up
[/caption] The pale-orange coloration around the 39-mile (62-km) -wide Kuiper crater on Mercury is evident in this image, a color…
Asteroid’s Unusual Light and Dark Crater
[/caption] Light and dark material spreads outward from a 5-km-wide crater on Vesta in this image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft,…
More “Hollowed Ground” on Mercury
[/caption] The latest featured image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, soon to complete its first year in orbit around Mercury, shows…
What Lies Beneath
[/caption] What would make a great home for a giant Martian ant lion? I'd have to say this pit, imaged…
Messages from Mercury
[/caption] It's been just over two months since the MESSENGER spacecraft successfully entered orbit around Mercury, back on March 18,…
More Evidence of Liquid Erosion on Mars?
[/caption] Terby Crater, a 170-km-wide (100-mile-wide) crater located on the northern edge of the vast Hellas Planitia basin in…
Look Inside a Lunar Crater
[/caption] The crater shown above is located in the lunar highlands and is filled with and surrounded by boulders of…
After Loss of Lunar Orbiter, India Looks to Mars Mission
[/caption] After giving up on re-establishing contact with the Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Chairman G. Madhavan…