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This oblique view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows Rao Crater (7 miles, 12 kilometers) at center left.

Saturn's moons Tethys and Hyperion appear to be near neighbors in this Cassini view, even though they are actually 930,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers) apart here. Tethys is the larger body on the left.

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At the edge of Mars' permanent North Polar cap, we see an exposure of the internal layers, each with a different mix of water ice, dust and dirt. These layers are believed to correspond to different climate conditions over the past tens of thousands of years.

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This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows terrain on Ceres centered at approximately 34 degrees south latitude, 266 degrees east longitude -- between the large basins named Urvara and Yalode.

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This image from NASA's Juno spacecraft provides a never-before-seen perspective on Jupiter's south pole.

The JunoCam instrument acquired the view on August 27, 2016, when the spacecraft was about 58,700 miles (94,500 kilometers) above the polar region. At this point, the spacecraft was about an hour past its closest approach, and fine detail in the south polar region is clearly resolved.

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This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows part of the floor and eastern rim on Consus Crater (40 miles or 64 kilometers wide) on Ceres.

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As NASA's Juno spacecraft closed in on Jupiter for its Aug. 27, 2016 pass, its view grew sharper and fine details in the north polar region became increasingly visible.

The JunoCam instrument obtained this view on August 27, about two hours before closest approach, when the spacecraft was 120,000 miles (195,000 kilometers) away from the giant planet (i.e., for Jupiter's center).

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This was taken on 2016-08-22 23:17 (UTC) and received on Earth 2016-08-25 11:42 (UTC). The camera was pointing toward HYPERION and the image was taken using the P120 and GRN filters. This image has not been validated or calibrated.

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Vertical structures, among the tallest seen in Saturn's main rings, rise abruptly from the edge of Saturn's B ring to cast long shadows on the ring in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft two weeks before the planet's August 2009 equinox.

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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this parting view showing the rough and icy crescent of Saturn's moon Dione following the spacecraft's last close flyby of the moon on Aug. 17, 2015.

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Saturn's moons Tethys and Hyperion appear to be near neighbors in this Cassini view, even though they are actually 930,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers) apart here. Tethys is the larger body on the left.

On an unrelated note, if you go to The Cosmotographer’s homepage you can see the new design. I changed it pretty drastically so there is only one image per page, but you can use the arrow keys to navigate from one page to another so its pretty nice looking. Check it out

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Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko surprised the scientists with its fissures, terraces, depressions, steep cliffs, and even dune-like structures.

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Frozen constituents sublimate increasingly as a comet draws closer to the sun, hurling dust and gas into space.

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Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko consists of two lobes, connected by a ‘neck’. Together, they resemble a rubber duck, an unusual shape for a comet.

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Looking down from the Rosetta Orbiter, the landscape on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is bizzare and varied. This was the first time that a spacecraft has ever observed a comet from orbit.

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Although solid-looking in many images, Saturn's rings are actually translucent. In this picture, we can glimpse the shadow of the rings on the planet through (and below) the A and C rings themselves, towards the lower right hand corner.

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