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Ceres' Haulani Crater, with a diameter of 21 miles (34 kilometers), shows evidence of landslides from its crater rim. Smooth material and a central ridge stand out on its floor. This image was made using data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft when it was in its high-altitude mapping orbit, at a distance of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers) from Ceres. Credits: NASA

Bright Craters On Dwarf Planet Ceres – New Images From NASA’s Dawn Mission

MessageToEagle.com | April 20, 2016

MessageToEagle.com – NASA’s Dawn spacecraft presents spectacular images of bright craters on the dwarf planet Ceres. The pictures were taken 386km (240 miles) from the surface of Ceres, during the

Cassini Spies Titan's Tallest Peaks Radar View of Titan's Tallest Mountains Mountains of Titan Map - 2016 Update The trio of ridges on Titan known as Mithrim Montes is home to the hazy Saturnian moon's tallest peak. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI

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Highest Peak On Saturn’s Largest Moon Titan Revealed In Cassini Spacecraft’s Images

MessageToEagle.com | March 26, 2016

MessageToEagle.com – Titan’s tallest peak is 10,948 feet (3,337 meters) high and is found within a trio of mountainous ridges called the Mithrim Montes, according to a new study

The Mountainous Shoreline of Sputnik Planum: In this highest-resolution image from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, great blocks of Pluto’s water-ice crust appear jammed together in the informally named al-Idrisi mountains. "The mountains bordering Sputnik Planum are absolutely stunning at this resolution," said New Horizons science team member John Spencer of the Southwest Research Institute. "The new details revealed here, particularly the crumpled ridges in the rubbly material surrounding several of the mountains, reinforce our earlier impression that the mountains are huge ice blocks that have been jostled and tumbled and somehow transported to their present locations." Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

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New Horizons Spacecraft Returns First Of The Best Images Of Pluto

MessageToEagle.com | December 5, 2015

MessageToEagle.com – NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the first in a series of the sharpest views of Pluto it obtained during its July flyby – and the