craters
Moon’s Blotchy Near Side Has Bigger Craters Than Expected
The familiar blotches that make up "the man in the moon", from the vantage point of Earth, happened because the…
Catastrophic Impacts Made Life on Earth Possible
How did life on Earth originally develop from random organic compounds into living, evolving cells? It may have relied on…
Curiosity’s Landing Leftovers
During its "seven minutes of terror" landing on August 6, 2012, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory dropped quite a few things…
A Color View of Darling Dione
Color-composite of Dione made from raw Cassini images acquired on Dec. 23, 2012. (NASA/JPL/SSI. Composite by J. Major.) Although made…
Mercury’s Many Colors
Although composited from expanded wavelengths of light, this wide-angle image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft shows the amazing variation of colors…
Loads of Ice Waiting for Explorers at the Moon’s Shackleton Crater
Shackleton crater on the Moon’s south pole has been somewhat of an enigma, as its permanently shadowed interior has made…
Mickey Mouse on Mercury?
This collection of craters, shaped not unlike the iconic head of a certain cartoon mouse, was imaged by NASA's MESSENGER…
Warhol Crater Gets Its 15 Minutes of Fame
[/caption] As pop art icon Andy Warhol said, "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes," and so…
The Bright and Dark Side of Vesta’s Craters
[/caption] Bright craters, dark craters... craters shaped like butterflies... they're all represented here in a panorama made from images acquired…
By Dawn’s Early Light
[/caption] Sunrise on Vesta highlights the asteroid's varied surface textures in this image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, released on Monday,…