Shadow Crosses a Gap
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Looking Over Enceladus
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Prometheus Between Rings
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Two Views of Titan Topography
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Epimetheus Close-Up
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Temperature Map of Pele, Io
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Io Prometheus Regions as Viewed by Galileo NIMS
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Rhea Day in the Sun
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Bisected Crescent
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The New Solar System
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Astral Pearl
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Janus-Epimetheus Swing
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The Other Shepherd
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Dim Details on Dione
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Scene Seen in the Near-Infrared
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Zooming in on Adiri
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Chappy Oblique
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Chappy Oblique
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A Tortuous Path in Posidonius
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Io's Interior (Artist's Concept)
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NASA's Juno Mission Captures View of Io's South Polar Region
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Lunar Flashlight from Above (Artist's Concept)
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - NASA's Lunar Prospector spacecraft launched successfully on its way to the Moon from Launch Complex 46 (LC46) at Cape Canaveral Air Station on Jan. 6 at 9:38 p.m. EST. It was the inaugural launch of Lockheed Martin's Athena II launch vehicle and the first launch from LC46, operated by Spaceport Florida Authority. Lunar Prospector, built for the NASA Ames Research Center by Lockheed Martin, is a spin-stabilized spacecraft designed to provide NASA with the first global maps of the Moon's surface and its gravitational magnetic fields, as well as look for the possible presence of ice near the lunar poles. It will orbit the Moon at an altitude of approximately 63 miles during a one-year mission.
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Jovian Family Portrait
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