Enceladus Atmosphere Not Global. This near-true color view from Cassini reveals the colorful and intriguing surface of Saturn's moon Iapetus in unrivaled clarity. Dark-stained Iapetus.
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a surface with craters buried under thick ejected material that displays a grooved texture on the giant asteroid Vesta. This map of Saturn's moon Titan shows the location of the upcoming April 30, , Titan flyby and the areas mapped so far by the Cassini radar mapper using its synthetic aperture radar imaging mod This wide angle field-of-view artist's rendering shows the surface of Pandora, one of the shepherds of the F ring, a thin wispy band of material just on the outside of the main rings of Saturn.
The Rich Color Variations of Pluto. These images show part of asteroid Vesta's equatorial region, which contains impact craters and troughs linear depressions.
Topography of Vesta's Equatorial Region I. Clouds in Saturn's atmosphere create an intricate pattern reminiscent of whipped cream swirling in coffee. Coffee and Cream Clouds. A single crescent moon is a familiar sight in Earth's sky, but with Saturn's many moons, you can see three or even more. Triple Crescents. InSight launched on May 5. InSight on the Pad. In this multi-temporal illumination map of the lunar south pole, Shackleton crater is in the center, the south pole is located approximately at 9 o'clock on its rim.
Illumination Map of the Moon's South Pole. These images are of HED howardite, eucrite and diogenite meteorites are a large group of meteorites believed to originate from asteroid Vesta, a hypothesis that is consistent with current Dawn ob Rocks from Vesta -- Part 2: Howardites.
Latest Image of Vesta captured by Dawn on July 17, In fact, the newly formed bowl shaped depression soon filled with water providing a lake habitat see graphic for aquatic plants and animals. These types of events, however, are large enough to destroy a modern city. They occur at an average rate of about once in years.
Before its impact origin was appreciated, the crater was called Coon Mountain or Coon Butte. Later it was called Meteor Crater, which is the popular or common name used today. However, the name recognized by the Meteoritical Society, composed in part of professional geologists who study impact craters, is the Barringer Meteorite Crater, in recognition of the work of Daniel Moreau Barringer who championed an impact origin for the crater.
Concept and content by David A. Kring and Jake Bailey. Design, graphics, and images by Jake Bailey and David A. The largest chunk recovered, known as the Holsinger Fragment, weighs kilograms and is on display in the visitor center. It was named after Samuel Holsinger who was foreman and drill supervisor for Daniel Barringer during the early 's. This nickel- iron meteorite hit the Earth's surface at a speed of between 14 and 20 kilometers per second.
The energy released was equivalent to around 2. Today, the crater consists of a bowl-shaped depression meters in diameter and meters deep, which classifies it as a simple crater -- Barringer Crater is very different from the Haughton and Ries impact structures, which are both complex craters.
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