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Sunlight highlights the bright, wispy features on the trailing hemisphere of Saturn moon Dione as seen by NASA...
Icy fractures on Saturn moon Rhea reflect sunlight brightly in this high-resolution mosaic created from images...
iss072e420661 (Jan. 1, 2025) --- New Year's Day dawns on Cuba as the sunlight gleams off its Atlantic and Caribbean...
Sunlight truly has come to Saturn's north pole. The whole northern region is bathed in sunlight in this view from...
The low angle of sunlight creates stark shadows in this Cerean scene. The image is centered at approximately 74...
Saturn hexagonal polar jet stream is the shining feature of almost every view of the north polar region of Saturn....
Sunlight gleams off NASA's Lunar Trailblazer in this artist's concept depicting the small satellite in lunar orbit....
A self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity rover taken on Sol 2082 (June 15, 2018). A Martian dust storm has reduced...
The rim of the crater blocks sunlight coming from the right, creating a moody scene on Ceres. The image is centered...
In Heilongjiang province, northeast China, shade covers shelter farmed ginseng from the effects of direct sunlight....
Sunlight illuminates the bowling-pin shaped nucleus from directly below comet Borrelly as seen by NASA Deep Space 1....
This false color photograph of Neptune was made from NASA's Voyager 2 images taken through three filters: blue,...
P-34705 This false-color photograph of Neptune was made from Voyager 2 images taken through three filters: blue,...
A group of scientists from NASA's Dawn mission suggests that when sunlight reaches Ceres' Occator Crater, a kind of...
art002e009205 (April 4, 2026) - A thin arc glowing in the darkness of space. Sunlight traces the curves of the ocean...
iss070e090453 (Feb. 10, 2024) --- Noctilucent clouds, wispy clouds in Earth's upper atmosphere illuminated by the...
iss070e090457 (Feb. 10, 2024) --- Noctilucent clouds, wispy clouds in Earth's upper atmosphere illuminated by the...
STS-43 Earth observation taken aboard Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, captures the Earth's limb at sunrise with...
Sunlight washes over the exterior of the integration and testing facility at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt,...
art002e024014 (April 4, 2026) - A thin arc glowing in the darkness of space. Sunlight traces the curves of the ocean...
STS-36 Earth observation shows sun beaming off ocean waters with heavy cloud cover.
STS062-86-196 (4-18 March 1994) --- This photo depicts many of the types of ocean features seen when illuminated by...
STS062-153-226 (4-18 March 1994) --- Though it did not reproduce well, this photo gives scientific information to...
This series of images shows the shadow of Phobos as it sweeps over NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and darkens the...