Asteroid Imagery Index
NOTE: This page provides quick links to all asteroid imagery provided in the Exploring The Planets online exhibition. More detailed descriptions of each image are provided within the online exhibition. Reproductions or copyright information must be obtained from original image source given in credit line. For information on ordering NASA images, please see Sources of Earth and Planetary Imagery.
| Image |
JPEG |
GIF | Thumbnail | Source/Copyright |
| Asteroid Comparison (Gaspra, Deimos, Phobos) |
39K JPEG | - | 13K Thumbnail | NASA Press Release image P-41382. © see NSSDC Photo Gallery |
| Gaspra | 33K JPEG | - | 2K Thumbnail | NASA Press Release image #P-40450. © see NASA Planetary Photojournal |
| Ida & Dactyl (b/w) | 22K JPEG | - | 4K Thumbnail | NASA Press Release image #P-43731. © see NASA Planetary Photojournal |
| Ida & Dactyl (color) | 15K JPEG | - | - | NASA Press Release image #P-44131. © see NASA Planetary Photojournal |
| Mathilde (from NEAR spacecraft) |
35K JPEG | - | 9K Thumbnail | Courtesy USGS and the Applied Physics Laboratory NEAR mission team. |
| Toutatis (radar image) |
25K JPEG | - | 2K Thumbnail | NASA/Goldstone Radar image P-41525 from NSSDC |
| Asteroid Distribution Plot | - | 23K GIF | 8K Thumbnail | ©
Minor Planet Center, Smihtsonian Astrophysical Observatory Do not reproduce. |
| Phobos | 44k JPEG | 151k GIF | 3K Thumbnail | NASA Press Release P-76-H-729 Viking Orbiter image |
| Deimos | 30k JPEG | 133k GIF | 2K Thumbnail | NASA Press Release P-77-HC-58 Viking Orbiter image 428B22 |
| Catalogued Asteroids Graph | 47K JPEG | - | 16K Thumbnail | Graph by Richard Binzel, MIT courtesy of The New
Solar System (1990), K. Beatty & A. Chaikin Eds., 3rd Ed. ISBN 052136162 |
| NEAR Spacecraft | Courtesy Applied Physics Laboratory NEAR mission team. |
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