Clipart Volume 8: Abstract Space

061920SE GIF  Image of the Sun taken by the X-ray telescope 
10074608 JPG  Earth, from orbit                                        
10076133 JPG  Earth, from orbit                                                                                 
10076134 JPG  Earth, from orbit                                                                                  
CERBERUS JPG  Cerberus on Mars                                        
E-MOON   JPG  Earth above the moon                                        
FEBGRS   JPG  The Great Red Spot
JOVIAN   JPG  Jovian System                                         
JUPSPOT  GIF  Red spot on Jupiter                                         
MARGLOBE GIF  Mars composite                                         
ORIONMOS GIF  Orion mosaic                                         
P21430C  GIF  Jupiter red spot -- closeup                                        
P40223   GIF  Mars from viking orbiter                                         
P45187   GIF  Composite image of Venus from Magellan                                        
SATURN55 GIF  The A and B Rings                                       
SATURN85 GIF  The Dark Side of the B and C Rings
SCOOTER  GIF  Scooter with spots, Neptune                                      
SOUTHCAN JPG  South Candor Chasma                                     
TETHDION JPG  Saturn's Moons                                          
TOPO     JPG  Topography of the Moon                                           

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E-MOON --  Earth above the moon -- The Earth as seen across the lunar 
north pole by the UVVIS camera, the large crater in the foreground is 
Plaskett.  The Earth actually appeared about twice as far above the 
lunar horizon as shown. 

TOPO -- Clementine map of the topography of the Moon --Oblique view of 
the Moon looking towards the east, with color-coded altimetry on a 
shaded-relief image.  The lowest elevations are shown in purple, 
increasing to blue, green, and red.  10x vertical exaggeration. 
Original image was in a Mercator projection from latitude -70 to 70 
and with 450 degrees of longitude (repeating region from 90 to 180).  
The large-scale topography of the Moon is dominated by two giant 
basins or depressions separated by rugged highlands.  The deepest 
depression is the South Pole/Aitken basin (upper right), and the 
larger but shallower depression covers most of the central and 
northern nearside.  The nearside basin may be due to a single large 
impact, several large impacts, or to magma-ocean processes.  The 
highest regions on the Moon occur on the north-central farside, 
perhaps due to giant-basin ejecta and/or magma ocean processes.  
Except perhaps for the nearside basin and central farside highlands, 
all of the large-scale topography of the Moon has been determined by 
impact events and mare fill.  All of the multi-ring impact basins on 
the Moon are at least 3.9 billion years old.  

061920SE -- Image of the Sun taken by the X-ray telescope on Skylab -- 
This image of the Sun in the wavelength band 2 - 32 and 44 - 54 
Angstrom Units, recorded with X-ray Spectrographic Telescope aboard 
the Skylab spacestation on 1973 June 19 at 06:19 hours Universal Time.  
The globe of the Sun can be seen as dark because it is not hot enough 
to emit X-rays.  The bright areas surrounding the dark globe are hot 
clouds of gas (1 to 2 million degrees K) in the Sun's corona, which 
glow in X-rays.  The appearance of bundles or skeins of threads is due 
to the magnetic field of the Sun, which traps and constrains the forms 
of the clouds, as well as playing a still poorly-understood role in 
heating the clouds to such a higher temperature than the Sun's surface 
(5,800 deg K).  Scale: the Sun's diameter is approximately 1,400,000 
km (840,000 mi.).  This image has been processed to enhance the 
sharpness of its features, using the unsharp masking process, which 
suppressed features larger than 73,000 km in size.  On the left edge 
(or east limb) of the Sun, a large magnetized arch of gas is visible; 
this feature lasted several hours. 

JOVIAN.JPG -- Jovian System --Voyager 1 took this photo of Jupiter and 
two of its satellites, Io on the left and Europa on the right. Io is 
about 350,000 km (217,000 mi) above Jupiter's Great Red Spot; Europa 
is about 600,000 km (372,000 mi) above Jupiter's clouds. Although both 
satellites have about the same brightness, Io's color is different 
from Europa's. Io's equatorial region shows two shades of red, 
possibly indicating different surface materials. <p> <p> febgrs The 
Great Red Spot The colorful, wavy cloud pattern to the left of the Red 
Spot is a region of extraordinarily complex wave motion. This dramatic 
view of the Great Red Spot and its surroundings was taken February 25, 
1979, when Voyager 1 was 9.2 million km (5.7 million mi) from Jupiter. 
An atmospheric system larger than Earth and more than 300 years old, 
the Great Red Spot remains a mystery. Swirling, storm-like features 
possibly associated with wind shear can be seen both to the left and 
above the Red Spot.

TETHDION -- Saturn's Moons --
Saturn and two of its moons, Tethys and Dione, were photographed by 
Voyager 1 at a distance of 13 million km (8 million mi). The shadows 
of Saturn's three bright rings are cast onto the cloud tops. The limb 
of the planet can be seen easily through the 3500 km (2170 mi) wide 
Cassini Division, which separates the A and B rings. The view 
through the much narrower Encke Gap, near the outer edge of the A ring 
is less clear. Closer to the planet is the faintest of Saturn's three 
main rings, the C ring or crepe ring, barely visible against the 
planet.

SCOOTER -- Scooter with Spots -- The three features visible here are 
among the most interesting on Neptune. At the top is the Great Dark 
Spot, accompanied by bright, white clouds that change rapidly with 
time. Below the dark spot is a bright feature that scientists 
nicknamed "Scooter." Below Scooter is the Small Dark Spot. All three 
features move eastward at different velocities, so it is rare that 
they can all be photographed together. 

SOUTHCAN -- South Candor Chasma -- This view of Candor Chasma in 
Valles Marineris on Mars is from the north, looking south. The image 
is a mosaic made from images acquired by both of the Viking Orbiters. 

CERBERUS -- The large dark area left of center is named Cerberus.  The 
arcuate markings in the upper right are in the Amazonis plains and may 
be sand drifts. The Elysium volcano, a yellow area north of Cerberus, 
has several channels radiating from its flanks. The three bright 
spots, upper left, are volcanoes partially veiled by thin clouds. 

SATURN55.GIF -- The A and B Rings -- This enhanced color image shows 
the outer half of Saturn's main ring system.  The dark Cassini 
Division near the middle divides the outer A Ring from the B Ring.  
The Cassini Division was once thought to be empty, but this view shows 
that it contains several fainter ring structures.  The most prominent 
structure in the A Ring is the Encke Gap, about 1/3 way from the 
ring's outer edge.  This gap is "shepherded" open by the tiny embedded 
moon Pan. The B Ring is more densely packed with material than the A 
Ring 
     
SATURN85.GIF -- The Dark Side of the B and C Rings -- The point of 
view is shifted inward to show the B and C Rings.  The C Ring is 
optically thin so sunlight scatters through it easily, making it 
brighter than the B Ring in this lighting geometry. Viewing the ring's 
unlit face, something can appear dark for one of two reasons, either 
because it is nearly opaque (like the B Ring at left) or because it is 
almost completely transparent (like the region inside the C Ring at 
right).  In the former case there is too much material for light to 
leak through, whereas in the latter case there is no material to 
scatter the light. Enhanced false color has been used to show subtle 
color variations in the rings. 
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