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Planetary Picture of the Day - Week of June 28, 2021

Planetary Picture of the Day - Week of June 28, 2021

Jul 8, 2021
Tags: PPOD
Planetary Picture of the Day

 

Planetary Picture of the Day

Week of June 28, 2021

Welcome to our weekly recap of our Planetary Picture of the Day (PPOD)!
From Scotland to Ganymede, Saturn to Vesta . . . planets, moons, and asteroids, oh my!

 

Monday, June 28, 2021

Ganymede
Credit : NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

Ganymede
Take a look at Jupiter's moon Ganymede from NASA's Juno mission June 7 flyby. Citizen scientist Kevin M. Gill processed this view from raw #JunoCam images, which are available at https://buff.ly/2Suf4Lw

 

Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Scottish Beauty
Credit Image: Max Rive Photography (https://buff.ly/3x5rjxl)

Scottish Beauty
Rainy days above the Isle of Skye, Scotland.

 

Wednesday, June 30, 2021

4 Vesta
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

4 Vesta
This image is from the last sequence of images NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained of the giant asteroid Vesta, looking down at Vesta's north pole as it was departing in 2012.

 

Thursday, July 1, 2021

Saturn's Rings
Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute / Don Davis

Cassini's treasures
Enceladus and Titan through Saturn’s rings.

 

Friday, July 2, 2021

Hyperion
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute.

Hyperion from Cassini
This stunning false-color view of Saturn's moon Hyperion reveals crisp details across the strange, tumbling moon's surface. Differences in color could represent differences in the composition of surface materials. The view was obtained during Cassini's close flyby on Sept. 26, 2005.

 

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