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Light and Shadow
Light and Shadow
Light and Shadow in the Hangar at Glenn Research Center on February 27, 2024. Photo Credit: (NASA/Sara Lowthian-Hanna)
This image from NASA Dawn spacecraft shows an area in Vesta northern hemisphere that has been illuminated by the...
Saturn moon Janus, its rugged surface shown in shadow and light, passes before the planet rings in this image taken...
NASA Cassini spacecraft camera looks in near-infrared light at a dramatic view of Saturn, its ringplane and the...
NASA Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn shadow cutting sharply across its rings as the orbits of ring particles carry...
This mosaic of the surface of asteroid Vesta was made from images obtained by NASA Dawn spacecraft while the area...
Capturing the interplay between light and shadow, NASA Cassini spacecraft looks toward the night side of Saturn...
As ring particles emerge from the darkness of Saturn shadow, they pass through a region of twilight. The Sun light,...
Test subjects performing mission-relevant tasks and evaluating shadow quality during NBL Preliminary Lunar Lighting...
The night sides of Saturn and Tethys are dark places indeed. We know that shadows are darker areas than sunlit...
The projection of Saturn's shadow on the rings grows shorter as Saturn's season advances toward northern summer,...
NASA's Voyager 2 high resolution color image, taken 2 hours before closest approach, provides obvious evidence of...
On March 2, 2003, NASA Terra spacecraft saw near-surface winds carrying a large amount of Saharan dust aloft and...
Viewed from Merritt Island, Fla., at 11:25 p.m. EST, the full moon, traveling west to east, is nearly completely in...
Traveling west to east, the full moon, viewed from Merritt Island, Fla., at 10:18 p.m. EST, begins moving into the...
Traveling west to east, the full moon, viewed from Merritt Island, Fla., at 10:35 p.m. EST, moves into the Earth's...
Viewed from Merritt Island, Fla., at 10:59 p.m. EST, the full moon, traveling west to east, is three-quarters of the...
The shadow of Saturn on the rings, which stretched across all of the rings earlier in Cassini's mission (see...
Peering into the Moon's permanently shadowed regions, Lunar Trailblazer will detect signatures of water ice in...
P-34709 Range: 157,000 kilometers (98,000 miles) This Voyager 2 high resolution color image, taken 2 hours before...
Saturn's shadow stretched beyond the edge of its rings for many years after Cassini first arrived at Saturn, casting...
Quantitative evaluation of light source by NBL diver during NBL Preliminary Lunar Lighting Evaluation. Divers at the...