Planetary Collection (page 21)

Water-filled Gusev crater, Mars. Artwork of the Gusev crater (large indentation, mid-centre), as seen millions of years ago when Gusev was filled with water and mud

Gusev crater and river, Mars
Gusev crater, Mars. Artwork of the Gusev crater (mid-centre), the Apollinaris Patera volcano (upper left) and river Ma adim Vallis (lower centre)

Olympus Mons, Mars

Drying Mars in its past
Drying Mars. Image 3 of 4. Artwork of thin clouds and wet areas (dark) on Mars billions of years ago. It is thought that liquid water existed on Mars early in its history

Water on Mars in its past
Water on Mars. Image 2 of 4. Artwork of water and clouds on Mars billions of years ago. It is thought that liquid water existed on Mars early in its history, but was lost to space over time

Mars. Artwork of the planet Mars seen from space. Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun, and it is a rocky desert world. Its diameter is around half Earth s

Water on Mars. Cutaway artwork of a section of the Martian crust showing water ice (blue) trapped in cracks below the surface. Mars is a barren planet of rock and has no liquid water

Mars water erosion
Martian water erosion. Gullies and channels on the surface of Mars thought to indicate the presence of liquid water in its recent history

Martian topography. Three-dimensional map of the topography of Mars. Elevation is colour-coded, from white (highest) through red, yellow and green to blue (lowest)

3-D topography of Mars
Mars global topography. Three-dimensional map of Mars showing the topography of the entire planet. The south pole is at the bottom of the left image, with the north pole at the top of the right one

Volcano on Mars
Martian volcano. Coloured Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image of the Apollinaris Patera volcano (upper centre) near the Martian equator. A patch of clouds (white) is seen by its lower left edge

Optical image of Mars in the constellation Virgo
Mars. Optical image of the planet Mars (bright orange, centre left) in the constellation Virgo. North is at top. The bright blue/white star to the right of Mars is Spica (Alpha Virginis)

Mars northern hemisphere

Mosaic of images showing one of Mars hemispheres
Mars. Mosaic of images taken by the Viking I and II probes showing the globe of Mars. The image is centred on 90 degrees longitude and 0 degrees latitude

Point perspective Viking mosaic, Valles Marineris
Colour-enhanced fish-eye view of Mars. Mosaic of images made by the Viking Orbiter, centred on the Valles Marineris canyon system

View of the Valles Marineris canyon system, Mars
Oblique view of the central region of the giant Valles Marineris canyon system on Mars, computer- processed from Viking spacecraft imagery & topographic maps of the planet

Computer-mosaic image of Mars
Computer-processed mosaic of Mars, made from data gathered by the Viking Orbiters in 1980. At the top of the crescent is the bright Arabia region

Viking photo of sunrise over Martian canyons
Viking Orbiter photograph of sunrise over the Noctis Labyrinthus, a region of canyons at the western end of the Valles Marineris, Marss great canyon system

Viking 1 spacecraft photograph of Mars. The picture shows the giant volcano Olympus Mons at top right, the 3 volcanos forming the Tharsis Mountains at centre right

Viking photo of Mars showing volcano & ice plume
Viking Orbiter 2 photograph of crescent Mars, showing a cloud plume of water ice being blown off the summit of the volcano Ascreaus Mons (upper centre)

Soviet experiments on lunar soil, 1970
Soviet experiments on lunar soil. The first Soviet mission to return a sample of lunar soil to the Earth was Luna 16, which landed back on Earth on 24 September 1970

Soviet lunar rock sample, 1970
Soviet lunar rock sample. The first Soviet mission to return a sample of lunar rock to the Earth was the robotic probe Luna 16, which landed back on Earth on 24 September 1970

Big Mulie, lunar rock collected by Apollo 16 crew
This lunar rock, known as Big Mulie, was collected by the Apollo 16 crew during EVA-1. The rock is being studied by Brown-Root-Northrup technicians at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory

Crater Timocharis on the Moon photographed from the orbiting Apollo 15 spacecraft in 1971. This meteorite crater is around 32 kilometres (km) wide, and was photographed from 100 km above it

Lunar surface, the Hadley-Apennine region of the Moon. The craters Hilbert (far left) and Kondratyuk (far right) are seen. Photographed during the Apollo 15 mission of 1971 (26 July to 7 August)

Apollo 13 planned landing site on Moon
Apollo 13 planned landing site in the Fra Mauro area on the Moon. The Fra Mauro area is a flat, vast highland centred at 17 degrees and 36 minutes west longitude and 3 degrees

Artwork of a volcano erupting in the Moons past
Volcano on Moon. Artwork of a volcano erupting on the surface of the Moon around 3 billion years ago. This period was the peak of lunar activity

Planned landing site, Fra Mauro area
Apollo 13 planned landing site. View of the Fra Mauro area on the Moon which was selected as a landing site for the Apollo 13 mission

Artwork of ice in craters on the Moons surface

Artwork of lava flows on the surface of Venus
Surface of Venus. Artwork of lava flows on the surface of the planet Venus. Venus is the second planet out from the Sun, but it is without a doubt the hottest

Venus, Magellan image

False-colour perspective view of Gula Mons, Venus. This image was constructed using plan-view data gathered by the Magellan radar-mapping spacecraft

Coloured radar image of Venus eastern hemisphere
Venus. Coloured radar map of the eastern hemisphere of Venus. The map was created using data gathered by the Magellan radar-mapping spacecraft in 1990-94

Global topographic map of Venus
Colour-coded topographic map of the surface of Venus, compiled from radar data recorded by the Pioneer-Venus spacecraft. The smooth circle at top marks the north pole

False-col. 3D view of Cunitz Crater and Gula Mons

Surface of Mercury, artwork
Surface of Mercury. Computer artwork showing the surface of the planet Mercury with the Sun passing overhead. At its closest, Mercury is only 46 million kilometres from the Sun

Surface of Venus. Computer artwork of a rocky landscape on the surface of the planet Venus. This is the hottest planetary surface in the solar system, with temperatures of nearly 500 degrees Celsius

Computer artwork of the surface of Venus
Surface of Venus. Computer artwork of the surface of the planet Venus. Venus is the second planet out from the Sun, but it is without a doubt the hottest

Asteroid passing Jupiter, artwork. Asteroids are large rocks left over after the solar system formed. They mostly have a diameter of less than a hundred kilometres

Messenger spacecraft at Mercury, computer artwork. The Messenger spacecraft is due to be launched during a 13-day window from 2 August 2004

Mosaic of Magellan imagery, Venus north hemisphere

Comet or asteroid debris, artwork
Comet or asteroid debris. Computer artwork of Earth (bottom right) in the path of broken up pieces of a comet or asteroid

Venus surface from Venera 13
Venera 13 photograph of the surface of Venus, with part of the spacecraft visible in the foreground. Venera 13 was launched by the USSR on 30 October, 1981, and soft-landed on Venus in March 1982

Surface of Mercury. Computer artwork of an asteroid impact crater on the surface of the planet Mercury. The Sun (upper right) and Earth (blue, left of Sun) are seen in the sky

Ceres. Computer artwork of the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt with a diameter of 950 kilometres

Venus, computer artwork. This is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting at an average of 108 million kilometres from it

Coloured radar image of Venus hemisphere

False-colour 3D view of Maat Mons, Venus

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