
Acidalia Planitia — Fact Meets Fiction | Space Wallpaper
In Spring 2015, images of the Acidalia Planitia region of Mars captured by the HiRISe camera, giving writers of "The Martian" inspiration for their big screen adventure to the Red Planet.
In Spring 2015, images of the Acidalia Planitia region of Mars captured by the HiRISe camera, giving writers of "The Martian" inspiration for their big screen adventure to the Red Planet.
In the mid-1990s, the Galileo spacecraft, on its way to the Jupiter system, captured this mind-blowing image of asteroid 243 Ida and its moon, Dactyl.
Just like Earth, Jupiter's magnetic field channels charged solar particles to the poles which creates brilliant light shows called aurorae.
Almost 4 million miles in the distance, Jupiter, the Great Red Spot and three of the Jovian moons wait patiently for Juno to arrive.
During his six-month mission aboard the International Space Station, ESA astronaut Tim Peake captured a photo of a large iceberg from the Weddell Sea.
Across a 100 year time frame, Mercury passes between Earth and our Sun only 13 or so times.
It may have lost its status as a planet, but Pluto still offers much to space explorers.
From the ISS, ESA astronaut Tim Peake photographed the clear skies and building clouds over Europe.
Don't let your eyes deceive you, this is not a satellite image of one of Earth's oceans.
The blue haze seen around Pluto may be caused by sunlight-initiated chemical reactions between nitrogen and methane, leading to dusty particles in the atmosphere.
In a composite, false-color image snapped by Cassini in 2007, Saturn glows in unearthly colors.
The magnetic field of the sun reaches for the Earth through this large coronal hole in March of 2016.