Miscellaneous Planetary Pictures

Index

Ida
Gaspra
Mathilde
Other asteroids
Comets
Meteorites
Spacecraft

Ida

Galileo image of Ida asteroid 114k gif; 41k jpg
color of Ida and moon 34k gif; 15k jpg
false color of Ida 21k jpg
Highest-res Galileo image Ida 29k gif
Ida rotation series 31k gif
6 images of Ida 37k jpg
Ida and moon 45k gif
Closeup of Ida's moon 24k gif
Highest res Galileo image of Ida's moon Dactyl 29k gif

Gaspra

Images

Large false color image of asteroid 951 Gaspra 172k gif; 33k jpg
Gaspra in true and false color 18k jpg, 140k gif, 596k tiff
Montage of 11 images taken by Galileo spacecraft of 951 Gaspra 75k gif 75k jpg
Best view of asteroid Gaspra 174k gif
Gaspra approach sequence 75k gif
Gaspra, taken from Galileo, and Phobos and Deimos taken from Viking 96k gif; 81k jpg
True & Enhanced Color images 140k gif; 18k jpg; 596k tiff
Movies
Galileo Gaspra animation 41k quicktime; 38k fli
Smoothed Gaspra animation 700k quicktime

Mathilde

first NEAR image 57k gif
4 image mosaic 36k jpg
comparison with Ida and Gaspra 59k jpg
NEAR closest approach 53k jpg
two views showing irregular shape 35k jpg
Movies
flyby animation 440k gif 226k mpg

Other asteroids

Mathilde (1st image from NEAR) 58k jpg
4 NEAR images of Mathilde 112k jpg
more NEAR images of Mathilde html
Asteroid Fortuna HST (9/10/93) (0.044 arcseconds per pixel) 3k gif
radar images of 4179 Toutatis 110k gif
4179 Toutatis radar images html
Asteroid Radar Research (more Toutatis images) html
16 views of a computer model of 4769 Castalia 78k gif
map of 4769 Castalia 50k gif (caption)
HST images of 4 Vesta (rotation series) 25k jpg; 216k gif; caption
Vesta rotation movie (24 frames, from above) 83k mpg
a map of Vesta 89k gif (caption)
Keck II rotation sequence of Vesta html
more HST pix of Vesta showing a huge crater html
radar image of 1620 Geographos 11k gif
9969 Braille html
1998JM8 (radar images from Arecibo) html

Comets

Comet Hyakutake HST images html
Comet Kohoutek 227k gif
String of pearls comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 by HST (7/1/93) 17k gif
Close-up of bright nucleus in comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 by HST (7/1/93) 40k gif
Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 by Spacewatch Camera of the University of Arizona (3/30/93) 88k gif
Comet Shoemaker-Levy imaged by Hubble/WFPC 145k gif
Comet Halley (R. Dilsizian) 38k gif
AAT image of Comet Halley (color) 40k gif
UKS image showing tails (color) 75k gif
Tail of Halley's Comet 1000k gif
Halley's tail from Mt. Wilson 40k gif
Nucleus of Halley's Comet 84k gif
Nucleus of Halley's Comet (B&W) 95k gif
detachment event 310k gif
ray structure of Comet Halley 1000k gif
false color image from 1986 158k gif
Halley's nucleus from Mt. Wilson html
more Halley spacecraft images from 1986 html
shaded relief map of Halley's nucleus 55k gif
Halley images from Vega Mission html
CCD image of comet Mueller 93a 96k gif
Comet Bennett (Edwin Hirsch and Al Nalger) 46k gif
Comet Bennett (Edwin Hirsch and Al Nalger) 33k gif
Kuiper Belt Object 1993 SC 155k gif
small Kuiper Belt object (HST) 109k jpg; 225k gif (caption)
Kuiper Belt Object 1995-QY9 72k jpg (caption)
Comet West showing distinct dust and ion tails 111k gif
Comet West 63k gif
Comet Hyakutake (Fred Burger) 68k jpg; 209k gif
Comet Hyakutake nucleus (HST) 11k jpg; 67k gif
Comet Hale-Bopp (HST) html
a sungrazing comet (SOHO) 573k gif (caption)
Comet Wirtanen (target of the Rosetta mission) 62k gif
many recent comet images from JPL
comet images and info from Ikufumi Makino
Comet Hale-Bopp Home Page from JPL
Comet Hyakutake images from JPL