Textured Surfaces and Patterns

A diverse collection of images showcasing various textured surfaces, including cracks, geological structures, and unique patterns in nature, presented in monochrome.

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Cracks and Lines

Asgard Multi-Ring Structure on Callisto

This is a vertically polarized L-band image of the southern half of Moscow, an area which has been inhabited for 2,000 years.

Map of Cuba on poppy seeds

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This SAR image from the southern portion of Navka is a mosaic of twelve Magellan orbits that covers 180 kilometers in width and 78 kilometers in length.

This MOC image shows a plain southeast of Hebrus Valles that is cut by a network of intersecting troughs. Large, windblown -- and perhaps wind-eroded -- ripples occur on the trough floors

Map of Malaysia on poppy seeds

This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows a field of dark sand dunes on the northwestern floor of Brashear Crater. The dunes formed largely from winds that blew from the southeast (lower right)

Ganymede's Nippur Sulcus

Triton's Volcanic Plumes

Spiders from Mars

This synthetic-aperture radar image was obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its T-120 pass over Titan's southern latitudes on June 7, 2016.

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This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows a high resolution view of a surface composed almost entirely of eroded, exposed sedimentary rock in the Sinus Meridiani region of Mars. If one could vacuum up all of the dark sand and dust that covers the rocks at the Mars Exploration Rover, Opportunity, site, one might find a surface similar to that shown here. Note, just right of center, the occurrence of a circular feature. This is the site of a filled and buried meteor impact crater. Filled and buried craters are common among the sedimentary rocks of the Meridiani region. Location near 1.5°N, 359.4°W Image width ~3 km (~1.9 mi) Illumination from upper left Season Northern Summer http //photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07887

Seeing small areas of the Moon at 50 cm per pixel often presents unexpected views, and sometimes it is hard to interpret the geology at first glance, much less what is up and what is down, as evidenced by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Marius Regio, Ganymede

Silurian graptolites, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.

Huge cyclonic storms, the Great Red Spot and the Little Red Spot, and wispy cloud patterns are seen in fascinating detail in this map of Jupiter's atmosphere obtained January 14-15, 2007, by the New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI).

Schiaparelli's Sedimentary Rocks

This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows more of Olympia Undae, a large dune field located near the north polar cap.

Blackboard painted with chalk

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Prominent Doublet Ridges on Europa

Polar Summer

South Polar Polygons

Dione's icy surface is scarred by craters at Carthage Linea

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Caldera-like depression on Ganymede

The dunes in this image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft are part of Olympia Undae, a huge dune field near the north polar cap.

Siton Undae is a large dune field located in the northern plains near Escorial Crater. Siton Undae is west of the crater and is one of three dune fields near the crater. The other dune fields are Hyperboreae Undae and Aspledon Undae. The nearby north polar cap is dissected by Chasma Boreale, which exposes an ice free surface that may be a source of some of the sand. This image shows part of the margin of the dune field. In this image the crescent nature of the individual dunes can be see in the upper left portion of the image. As the dunes coalesce the crescent form is lost. Orbit Number 79215 Latitude 74.469 Longitude 294.617 Instrument VIS Captured 2019-10-23 21 33

This Mars Global Surveyor MOC image shows dark dunes superposed on the rippled floor of Proctor Crater in Noachis Terra. Winds blowing predominantly from east (right) to west (left) were responsible for the formation of these dunes

Fractures in Transitional Terrain on Ganymede

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Tithonium Dust Devil

This Mars MOC image shows dunes in the north polar region of Mars covered by a layer of carbon dioxide frost that accumulated during the winter in 2005. Dark spots indicate areas where frost has begun to sublime away

Map of the world on poppy seeds

Mixing Saturn

This image from NASA's Magellan spacecraft covers part of the eastern flank of the volcano Sapas Mons on the western edge of Atla Regio.

Polar Erg

Defrosting Sand

In the Groove

Fractures/Pits in Northern Plains (Utopia Plains: 44.9 N, 274.7 W)

Recent Sand Avalanching on Rabe Crater Dunes

This observation of a small section of the Asgard terrain reveals compositional variations over the surface of Callisto was captured by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in 1996.

This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a small portion of Olympia Undae, a large dune field located near the north polar cap.

This VIS image of Olympia Undae was collected during north polar summer. The dunes are now completely frost free and are dark in color due to being made of basaltic sand. The surface between the dunes, where visible, is a bright tone. In some regions of dense dunes, the bright material may be a deposit on the dunes rather than the underlying surface. The presence of gypsum has been suggested for Olympia Undae, gypsum is a lighter tone than basalt in this filter of the THEMIS VIS camera. Olympia Undae is a vast dune field in the north polar region of Mars. It consists of a broad sand sea or erg that partly rings the north polar cap from about 120° to 240°E longitude and 78° to 83°N latitude. The dune field covers an area of approximately 470,000 km2 (bigger than California, smaller than Texas). Olympia Undae is the largest continuous dune field on Mars. Olympia Undae is not the only dune field near the north polar cap, several other smaller fields exist in the same latitude, but in othe

VL1 Digs A Deep Hole On Mars

Ganymede - Dark Terrain in Galileo Regio

This close-up view of Saturn's atmosphere shows a circular vortex surrounded by numerous attendant bright clouds. Some blurring due to spacecraft motion is apparent in this view

Callisto's Valhalla impact structure

This high-resolution scanning electron microscope image shows an unusual tube-like structural form that is less than 1/100th the width of a human hair in size found in meteorite ALH84001, a meteorite believed to be of Martian origin.

Complex and unique canyon systems appear to have been intricately carved into older terrain by the ample flow of liquid methane rivers on Saturn's moon Titan, as seen in this radar image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on May 21, 2009.

This region of linear, intersecting ridges near the south pole is called Angustus Labyrinthus, as shown in this image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft.

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This is an image of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and its surroundings, centered at 51.17 north latitude and 30.15 west longitude.

Venus - Comparison of Left and Right Looking Views of Imdr Region

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Now that summer has arrived in the northern hemisphere of Mars, the dunes near the polar cap have shed all their winter frost, as shown in this image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft.

A Polar Crater on Ganymede

This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of a dune field near the north polar cap. This is not Olympia Undae, the largest dune field near the north polar cap, but is rather a portion of a smaller dune field further to the east.

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Northern Plains of Mars

This VIS image shows a portion of Olympia Undae, a large dune field located near the north pole. This image was collected during the northern spring season. Olympia Undae is the largest contiguous dune field on Mars, covering 470,000 square kilometers (181,468 square miles). For comparison, the state of California is 163,696 square miles. Orbit Number 78451 Latitude 80.7135 Longitude 224.211 Instrument VIS Captured 2019-08-21 23 49

Rest of the fern fan of the lower Carboniferian formation of southern Silesia, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.

FOTOGRAFIA DE SATELITE DE SEVILLA Y ALREDEDORES. Location: EXTERIOR, SPAIN.

FOTOGRAFIA DE SATELITE DE SEVILLA Y ALREDEDORES. Location: EXTERIOR. SPAIN.

Closing in on Titan

Ridged Layer Outcrop

Mountains on Io

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Asgard impact structure on Callisto

Craters in a Newly Imaged Area on Callisto

Avernus Colles

This image taken by the microscopic imager on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the powdery soil of Mars in 3-D. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.

Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows complexly-eroded terrain within a partially-filled impact crater in Noachis Terra

Lakes of Titan

Brushed Target on Rock Champagne in Gusev Crater

This VIS image shows part of Olympia Undae, a large dune field that surrounds part of the north polar cap. At the top of the image the dunes are small and isolated. As the amount of available sand increases the density of dunes increases. This is seen at the bottom of the image. Collected during northern summer, the dunes are completely free of ice and frost. Orbit Number 71822 Latitude 79.9343 Longitude 143.91 Instrument VIS Captured 2018-02-22 00 15

Martian City Map

Martian Streaker

$This MGS MOC image shows a group of tapered ridges, known as yardangs, which formed by wind erosion of a relatively easily-eroded material, most likely sedimentary rock or volcanic ash deposits containing some fraction of sand-sized grains$

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Chasma Boreale Dunes

Erosion and Sublimation on Mars Seen By Mars Global Surveyor

Polar Polygons

The Shangri-La Sand Sea on Titan is shown in this image from the Synthetic Aperture radar (SAR) on NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Hundreds of sand dunes are visible as dark lines snake across the surface of Titan.

This image shows a comparison between NASA's Magellan image (right) and the highest resolution Earth-based Arecibo radar image of Venus.

The Rays of Qi Bashi

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The dust devil tracks in this image are located in Terra Sirenum.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured the first lightning flashes on Saturn. The storm that generated the lightning lasted from January to October 2009, making it the longest-lasting lightning storm known in the solar system.

Grooved Terrain in Nippur Sulcus on Ganymede

A newly discovered mountain range lies near the southwestern margin of Pluto's heart-shaped Tombaugh Regio (Tombaugh Region), situated between bright, icy plains and dark, heavily-cratered terrain as seen by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.

Focus on El Capitan-2

A Glimpse of What's to Come

Cycloidal Dust Devil Track

This image shows a rare and powerful storm on the night side of Saturn (Reprojected View)

This MOC image shows sand dunes overlain by a layer of seasonal carbon dioxide frost in the north polar region of Mars

Perspective view of Arbela Sulcus, Ganymede

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