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Asteroids
951 Gaspra
- The Galileo spacecraft was the first planetary mission to
photograph an asteroid "up-close". Its flyby of Gaspra
occurred on 29 October 1991 at a distance of about
16,200 km.
(Size: 33K)
Image ID: P-40450-C
- A montage of images of Gaspra.
(Size: 75K)
Image ID: P-41383
- A comparison of Gaspra with Mars' two satellites, Phobos and Deimos.
(Size: 82K)
Image ID: P-41382
243 Ida & Dactyl
The second of the two asteroids which Galileo encountered en route to Jupiter, Ida was discovered to have something different: its own satellite! Galileo's flyby of Ida (and its moon Dactyl) occurred on 28 August 1993 at a distance of about 2,400 km.
- The asteroid Ida.
(Size: 41K)
Image ID: P-42964
- The asteroid Ida and its moon, Dactyl.
(Size: 22K)
Image ID: P-43731
- Photo Caption
- Hi-res TIFF (Size: 1.0M)
- The asteroid Ida and its moon, Dactyl (in color). (Size: 16K)
- The asteroid Ida and its moon, Dactyl (in false color).
(Size: 21K)
Image ID: P-44131
- A montage of images of Ida.
(Size: 38K)
Image ID: P-44129
- A high-resolution image of the asteroid Ida.
(Size: 15K)
Image ID: P-44130
- A close-up picture of Ida's moon, Dactyl.
(Size: 15K)
Image ID: P-44297
4179 Toutatis
- Radar images of the asteroid Toutatis obtained with NASA's
70 m radio telescope at Goldstone.
(Size: 26K)
Image ID: P-41525
4 Vesta
- Montage of images of the asteroid Vesta taken by the
Hubble Space Telescope using the Wide-Field Planetary
Camera 2.
(Size: 33K)
Image ID: STScI-PRC95-20A
- Image, elevation map, and model Vesta's surface.
(Size: 34K)
Image ID: STScI-PRC95-20A
- Photo Caption
- Hi-res TIFF (Size: 15M)
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