Io - Jupiter’s volcanic moon
Europa - Jupiter’s icy moon
Ganymede - Jupiter’s (and the solar system’s) largest moon
Callisto - Jupiter’s heavily cratered moon
Made using: Celestia, Screen2Gif & GIMP Based on: @spaceplasma‘s solar system gifs Profile sources: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets, http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/joviansatfact.html
As the Cassini mission to Saturn draws in to it’s final year, take a look at some of the most fantastic images from the ringed world.
Credits:
Image 1: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Image 2: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Image 3: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI
Image 4: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Image 5: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Image 6: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Image 7: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Image 8: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/University of Idaho
Image 9: NASA/JPL/ESA/University of Arizona
Image 10: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Framed by Nature // Merlin Kafka
ice flower
by Denny Bitte
Snoqualmie Pass // Matt Kuma
Stormy Weather at Porthcawl // Pete
Cloud Mountain // Joni Niemelä
by: Sondre Eriksen
Plate 14. Nebulae. (Now “galaxy” is used to denote the feature in Andromeda.) An atlas of astronomy. 1892.