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14 Unbelievable Images That Were Shot In Our Solar System
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14 Unbelievable Images That Were Shot In Our Solar System

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1. Mercury’s very own satellite.


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NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft, which recently celebrated its 10-year launch anniversary in August, has been in a steady orbit around Mercury since 2011 and has gathered 255,858 images since its launch. It was a risk sending the small satellite on the mission, but after a decade in space, the images captured have been invaluable to understanding our solar system’s smallest planet.

2. Earth-sized solar flare.



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This image of the sun depicts an eruption that extended 160,000 miles out from the sun, which — let’s just say — is a lot bigger than Earth.

3. Finding Venus.


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in the 1960s, Venus was thought to be Earth’s exact twin with the potential for hiding advanced civilization beneath its dense clouds. The two images above show the planet silhouetted by the sun taken from Riverside Park in Manhattan and NASA’s SDO satellite, respectively.

4. The Martian rovers.


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Moving farther from Earth, we have robotic photographers on the surface of Mars! In addition to the Curiosity Mars rover NASA has two other rovers on the planet as part of its Mars Exploration Rover Mission: the Spirit and Opportunity. The crater above, named Echus Chasma, was first captured by the ESA’s Mars Express, and the image of the planet’s horizon was taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

5. Jupiter’s natural satellites.


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NASA’s Cassini and Galileo spacecrafts were sent to study Jupiter and its moons in two of the most ambitious missions NASA has ever attempted.

6. Saturn silhouetted.


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The Cassini spacecraft also visited Saturn and captured one of the most unexpected photos of the planet silhouetted by the sun. It shocked scientists to see a small dot in the lower right corner, believed to be Earth (this being the first known image of Earth from this distance).

7. The dark side of Uranus.


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This isn’t just a fun butt joke, it’s an actual image taken by NASA’s Voyager 2 of the seventh planet. It passed Uranus in 1986 and recorded data about its rings and moons. Eventually, Voyager 2 will exit our solar system and enter interstellar space.

8. The farthest planet from the sun.


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These photos of Neptune were also taken by Voyager 2. The image was one of the last images taken of the planet before the spacecraft left its orbit (it was taken through the green-orange filter, which is why it appears to be purple).

9. Cosmic bodies seen from home.


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These images of the NGC 1999 nebula, the Cat’s Eye Nebula, and the NGC 1275 galaxy (respectively) were taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (pictured above), which orbits Earth.

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