PIX4659912: Pekin seen from the Space Station in 2005 - Beijing from the International Space Station in 2005 - Pekin seen in February 2005 from the International Space Station. The large city Beijing (Peking), China is featured in this image photographed by Expedition 10 Commander Leroy Chiao on the International Space Station / Bridgeman Images
JSN4625106: The site of the Musee des Monuments Francais, Cite de l'architecture et du patrimoine, Palais de Chaillot, 1 place du Trocadero, Paris 16th. All the renovation and renovation works were entrusted to the architect Jean Francois Bodin, at the end of 2007. Photography 2003. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4625133: Saturn and Mimas seen by the Cassini probe 18/01/2005 - Saturn and Mimas seen by Cassini spacecraft Jan. 18 2005 - The Mimas satellite photographed in front of Saturn by the Cassini probe on 18 January 2005 at a distance of 1.4 million km from the planet. The shadow of Saturn's rings is projected on the planet. Mimas drifts along in its orbit against the azure backdrop of Saturn's northern latitudes in this true color view. The long, dark lines on the atmosphere are shadows cast by the planet's rings. Saturn's northern hemisphere is presently relatively cloud - free, and rays of sunlight take a long path through the atmosphere. This results in sunlight being scattered at shorter (bluer) wavelengths, thus giving the northernmost latitudes their bluish appearance at visible wavelengths. At the bottom, craters on icy Mimas (398 kilometers, or 247 miles across) give the moon a dimpled appearance. Images taken using infrared (930 nanometers), green (568 nanometers) and ultraviolet (338 nanometers) spectral filters were combined. The colors have been adjusted to match closely what the scene would look like in natural color. The images were obtained using the Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on Jan. 18, 2005, at a distance of approximately 1.4 million kilometers (870,000 miles) from Saturn. Resolution in the image is 8.5 kilometers (5.3 miles) per pixel on Saturn and 7.5 kilometers (4.7 miles) per pixel on Mimas. The image has been contrast - enhanced to aid visibility / Bridgeman Images
PIX4625221: Saturn rings seen by Cassini - Saturn's rings from Cassini - Image obtained by the Cassini probe on November 26, 2008 at a distance of 1.1 million km from the planet. This natural color view shows the system of rings of Saturn up to ring F. The system of rings is composed from closest to Saturn to outermost by ring D, then C, B, the division of Cassini, A with division of Encke, F, G and E. This natural color mosaic, taken from 10 degrees below the illuminated side of the rings, shows, from left to right, radially outward from Saturn, the C ring (with its Colombo and Maxwell gaps); the B ring and the Cassini division beyond, with the intervening Huygens gap; the A ring (with its Encke and Keeler gaps); and, on the far right, the narrow F ring. The total span covers approximately 65,700 kilometers (40,800 miles). Although it is too faint to be seen here, the D ring is located just to the left of the C ring. The mosaic was constructed from 45 narrow - angle - camera images - - 15 separate sets of red, green and blue images - - taken over the course of about four hours, as Cassini scanned across the rings. The images in this view were obtained by Nasa's Cassini spacecraft on Nov. 26, 2008, at a distance of approximately 1.1 million kilometers (700,000 miles) from Saturn and at a sun - Saturn - spacecraft, or phase, angle of 28 degrees. Image scale in the radial (horizontal) direction is about 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) per pixel / Bridgeman Images
PIX4625230: Tempete sur Saturn seen by the Cassini probe - Huge Storm on Saturn seen by Cassini spacecraft - Evolution of a huge tempete on Saturn seen by the Cassini probe from December 5, 2010 to August 12, 2011. This series of images from Nasa's Cassini spacecraft shows the development of the largest storm seen on the planet since 1990. These true - color and composite near - true - color views chronicle the storm from its start in late 2010 through mid - 2011, showing how the distinct head of the storm quickly grew large but eventually became engulfed by the storm's tail. The earliest image of the storm, taken Dec. 5, 2010, is in the top left of the panel. The storm appears only as a small, white cloud on the terminator between the day side and night side of the planet. The next view, in the top middle of the panel and taken Jan. 2, 2011, shows that the head quickly grew much larger and a tail began to trail a great distance eastward. Some of the clouds moved south and got caught up in a current that flows to the east (to the right) relative to the storm head. In the top right of the panel, this tail, which appears as slightly blue clouds south and now west (left) of the storm head, can be seen encountering the storm in the Feb. 25 image.The April 22 image, in the bottom left of the panel, is one of Cassini's last views of the storm when it still had a recognizable head. In this view, the tail is south of the head and is well established by this time.The May 18 view, in the bottom middle, shows only the storm's tail. The head still existed at this time, but it is beyond the horizon and out of the field of view here.Between the time of the May 18 image and the next image shown here (from Aug. 12), the head of the storm was engulfed by the part of the storm's tail that spread eastward at the same latitude as the head. The Aug. 12 image, in the bottom right, shows that the head has lost its distinct identity and is now just part of the jumble of the storm. Also visible in these / Bridgeman Images
JSN4625244: The site of the Musee des Monuments Francais, Cite de l'architecture et du patrimoine, Palais de Chaillot, 1 place du Trocadero, Paris 16th. All the renovation and renovation works were entrusted to the architect Jean Francois Bodin, at the end of 2007. Photography 2003. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4625257: Saturn seen by the Cassini probe - Saturn northern hemisphere seen by Cassini spacecraft: Saturn seen by the Cassini probe on 25 April 2016. Cassini scanned across the planet and its rings on April 25, 2016, capturing three sets of red, green and blue images to cover this entire scene showing the planet and the main rings. The images were obtained using Cassini's wide-angle camera at a distance of approximately 1.9 million miles (3 million kilometers) from Saturn and at an elevation of about 30 degrees above the ring plane. The view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from a Sun-saturn-spacecraft angle, or phase angle, of 55 degrees. / Bridgeman Images
JSN4625260: The site of the Musee des Monuments Francais, Cite de l'architecture et du patrimoine, Palais de Chaillot, 1 place du Trocadero, Paris 16th. All the renovation and renovation works were entrusted to the architect Jean Francois Bodin, at the end of 2007. Photography 2003. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4625283: Saturn seen at equinox - Saturn during Equinox - Saturn seen by the Cassini probe on August 12, 2009, 1.25 days after the exact date of Saturn equinox. The images that make up this mosaic were obtained at a distance of 847,000 km from the planet. Several satellites are visible in this image: Janus (lower left), Epimethee (lower middle), Pandora (on the right of the image, outside the rings) and Atlas (on the right, inside the F ring). Seen from our planet, the view of Saturn's rings during equinox is extremely foreshortened and limited. But in orbit around Saturn, Cassini spacecraft had no such problems. From 20 degrees above the ring plane, Cassini's wide angle camera shot 75 exposures in succession for this mosaic showing Saturn, its rings, and a few of its moons a day and a half after exact Saturn equinox, when the sun's disk was exactly overhead at the planet's equator. The novel illumination geometry that accompanies equinox lowers the sun's angle to the ring plane, significantly darkens the rings, and causes out - of - plane structures to look anomalously bright and to cast shadows across the rings. These scenes are possible only during the few months before and after Saturn's equinox which occurs only once in about 15 Earth years. Also at equinox, the shadows of the planet's expansive rings are compressed into a single, narrow band cast onto the planet as seen in this mosaic. The images comprising the mosaic, taken over about eight hours, were extensively processed before being joined together. At this time so close to equinox, illumination of the rings by sunlight reflected off the planet vastly dominates any meager sunlight falling on the rings. Hence, the half of the rings on the left illuminated by planetshine is, before processing, much brighter than the half of the rings on the right. On the right, it is only the vertically extended parts of the rings that catch any substantial sunlight. With no enhancement, the rings woul / Bridgeman Images
JSN4625286: The site of the Musee des Monuments Francais, Cite de l'architecture et du patrimoine, Palais de Chaillot, 1 place du Trocadero, Paris 16th. All the renovation and renovation works were entrusted to the architect Jean Francois Bodin, at the end of 2007. Photography 2003. / Bridgeman Images
JSN4625326: The site of the Musee des Monuments Francais, Cite de l'architecture et du patrimoine, Palais de Chaillot, 1 place du Trocadero, Paris 16th. All the renovation and renovation works were entrusted to the architect Jean Francois Bodin, at the end of 2007. Photography 2003. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4625340: Titan, Saturn satellite seen by Cassini - Saturn's moon Titan as seen by Cassini spacecraft: Visible and infrared composite image of Titan taken by the Cassini probe on August 21, 2014. View of methane and ethane lakes lit by the Sun. - This near-infrared, color mosaic from Nasa's Cassini spacecraft shows the sun glinting off of Titan's north polar seas. - The sunglint, also called a specular reflection, is the bright area near the 11 o'clock position at upper left. This mirror-like reflection, known as the specular point, is in the south of Titan's largest sea, Kraken Mare, just north of an island archipelago separating two separate parts of the sea - This particular sunglint was so bright as to saturate the detector of Cassini's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) instrument, which captures the view. - The southern portion of Kraken Mare (the area surrounding the specular feature toward upper left) displays a “” bathtub ring”” - a bright margin of evaporate deposits - which indicates that the sea was larger at some point in the past and has become smaller due to evaporation. The deposits are material left behind after the methane & ethane liquid evaporates, somewhat akin to the saline crust on a salt flat / Bridgeman Images
PIX4629876: Comparison of Earth Sizes, Venus, Mercure and Mars - Planetary-size comparison: Earth, Venus, Mercury and Mars - Earth diameter: 12 756,28 km Venus diameter: 12 100 km Mercury diameter: 4870 km March diameter: 6790 km Size comparison in diametric values: Earth: 12,756.28 km Venus: 12,100 km Mercury: 4,870 km March: 6,790 k / Bridgeman Images
PIX4629054: Sunset and turbulence - Sunset with strong turbulence - Sunset on the Eckmuehl Lighthouse (Penmarc'h, Finistere) photograph on March 18, 2005. March 20, 2005 was the day of the Spring equinox, when the Sun sets exactly to the west. Sunset on the lighthouse of Eckmuehl (Penmarc'h, Finistere) on March 18, 2005. On March 20, 2005 was the spring equinox, moment where the sun is setting exactly towards the west / Bridgeman Images
PIX4630230: Artist's view of the solar system - Solar system artwork - Artist's view of the solar system with Pluto. Planets are represented in order of proximity to the sun. From left to right: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. A comet and a planetary nebula are also represented. Solar system artwork with Pluto. The planets are shown from the nearest planet of the Sun, Mercury (left), to the farthest (right), Pluto. A comet and a planetary nebula are shown. Since August 2006, Pluto is no more a planet but a dwarf planet called 134340 Pluto / Bridgeman Images