PIX4575211: Surface de Callisto - Illustration - Spires on Callisto - Illustration - Artist's view of erodes ice peaks on the surface of Callisto. In May 2001 Nasa's Galileo spacecraft took the highest resolution images of any of Jupiter's satellites. The images were of the southeastern perimeter of Callisto's massive Asgard impact basin and what they revealed was unlike anything seen before in the Solar System: bright, icy spires rising from an otherwise relatively flat, cratered terrain. The spires may consist of material thrown outward from a major impact billions of years ago. In this image dozens of knobby spires rise into the airless void to twice the height of the Statue of Liberty. Over the eons the dirty ice in the spires has slowly eroded, leaving the non - ice materials to slide down and collect around the base of the spires. As this location is on the side of Callisto that always faces away from Jupiter (the “anti - Jupiter” side), its jovian host would never appear above the horizon / Bridgeman Images
PIX4575708: Color Moon - Colorful Moon - The Moon looks white, even orange or red if it is close to the horizon. In reality different shades exist depending on the composition of the soil. By saturating the colours with a digital treatment, the seas (covered with solidified lava) are mostly blue or rust, while the heavily craterized areas are rosatra. 12 July 2006. The Moon seems to be simply white, or orange/red if it is near the horizon. But in fact some colors appear depending on the nature of its terrains. With a digital process to saturate its color, the seas (covered by solid lavas) are mostly blue or orange, and craterised areas are pinkish / Bridgeman Images
PIX4598221: Apollo 17: E. Cernan in LEM - Apollo 17: E. Cernan inside the LM after EVA. Dec 13 1972 - Eugene Cernan in the LEM after his third extravehicular release. 13/12/1972. Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, Apollo 17 commander, is photographed inside the lunar module on the lunar surface following the third extravehicular activity (EVA - 3) of his mission. Note lunar dust on his suit / Bridgeman Images
TEC4598269: The Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris. Architects Felix Duban (1797-1872) and Francois Debret (1777-1850), reconstructions 1816. The building occupies what remains of the convent of the Petites Augustins (17th century) and the hotel de Chimay (1635), to which buildings were assistant in the 19th century. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4598304: Pont des Arts, Paris 6th arrondissement. Reconstruction in 1981 by Louis Arretche. The Passerelle des Arts, the first iron bridge in Paris, had the mission of joining the Institut de France and the Louvre, which was then called the Palais des Arts. Reserved for pawns, it was built from 1801 to 1804. It initially consisted of nine arches. Following numerous river accidents, its reconstruction was decided in 1981 but two arches were removed to line them up on the Pont Neuf. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4629700: Comparison of Earth and gas giants planets - Planetary-size comparison: Earth and gas giants planets - Comparison of Earth and Jupiter sizes. Earth diameter: 12 756,28 km Diametre of Jupiter: 142 984 km Diametre of Saturn: 120 000 km Diametre of Uranus: 50 800 km Diametre of Neptune: 49 500 km Size comparison in diametric values: Earth: 12,756.28 km Jupiter: 142,984 km Saturn: 120 000 km Uranus: 50 800 km Neptune: 49 500 k / Bridgeman Images
PIX4629955: Comparison of sizes: Objects by Kuiper and France - Planetary-size comparison: Kuiper objects with France - Des objets de Kuiper compares à la France. The planetoides represented are in the background, Eris, then Charon, and Ceres, in the foreground. Some planetoids compared to Earth. The bodies above are, from back to front, Eris, Charon and Ceres / Bridgeman Images
PIX4630042: Dwarf planets - Dwarf planets Ceres, Pluto, and Eris compared - Comparison at the scale of dwarf planets. From left to right are represented Ceres, Pluto and Eris. Ceres was elevated from asteroid to the status of dwarf planet in 2006 when the International Astronomical Union (IAU) reviewed Pluto's status as the solar system's 9th planet. Pluto was subsequently demoted to dwarf planet. In this image, from left to right are the dwarf planets Ceres, Pluto, and Eris. Eris was discovered in 2003 and is now the largest of the known dwarf planets. It is believed to be slightly more massive than Pluto and follows a highly eccentric orbit that alternately brings it as close as the orbits of Neptune and Pluto and as far as over twice Pluto's furthest distance from the Sun. It was the discovery of Eris that prompted the re-evaluation of Pluto as a planet / Bridgeman Images