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.
This week, we examine a Voyager 2 image of Triton, a Cassini image of Saturn with its moons, a panoramic view of Mars from the Curiosity rover, and our newest exploratory subject: asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson.
The asteroid was recently captured by the Lucy mission, which is en route to study the Trojan asteroids at Jupiter.
Plus, a gorgeous image of a face-on barred spiral galaxy taken by Hubble.
NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft captured dark streaks produced by geysers visible 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.
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