Planetary Picture of the Day - Week of October 6, 2025
We have been exploring our solar system for over 80 years now, and we have learned so much.
- A Voyager 2 image of Triton
- A Cassini image of Saturn with its moons
- A panoramic view of Mars from the Curiosity rover
- Asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson, captured by the Lucy mission
- A face-on barred spiral galaxy taken by Hubble
NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft captured dark streaks produced by geysers on the icy surface of Triton's south polar region during its flyby on August 25, 1989.
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas at two times of day on April 8, 2023.
The panoramas were captured at 9:20 a.m. local Mars time, then merged together.
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Author's summary: Exploring our solar system's wonders.