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Many of the most amazing views in the history of space exploration have been sent to Earth by missions enabled by radioisotope power. Some of those breathtaking views are featured here.

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For the 30th anniversary of one of the most iconic images taken by NASA's Voyager mission, a new version of...
Earth is a tiny pixel of white in a dusty sunbeam in this image of the vast emptiness of deep space.
After more than 13 years at Saturn, and with its fate sealed, NASA's Cassini spacecraft bid farewell to the Saturnian...
Magestic Saturn and its rings are barely illuminated view of the entire planet.
This is a montage of New Horizons images of Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io, taken during the spacecraft's Jupiter...
Giant Jupiter is half illuminated by the Sun and its moon Io is a crescent in the foreground. A small glowing volcanic plume is erupting from Io.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas at two times of day on April 8,...
A sweeping landscape gives way to hills on the colorized horizon in this artistic Mars composite image.
This picture of Neptune was produced from the last whole planet images taken through the green and orange filters on...
The image from NASA's Voyager 2 shows the Great Dark Spot and its companion bright smudge; on the west limb the fast moving bright feature called Scooter and the little dark spot are visible.
This false-color photograph is a composite of 15 images of the Moon taken through three color filters NASA's Galileo solid-state...
This false-color photograph is a composite of 15 images of the Moon taken through three color filters NASA Galileo solid-state imaging system during the spacecraft passage through the Earth-Moon system on December 8, 1992.
This global view of Jupiter's moon, Io, was obtained during the tenth orbit of Jupiter by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. Io,...
n a fitting tribute to the farthest flyby ever conducted by spacecraft, the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 has been...
This colorful view from NASA's Cassini mission is the highest-resolution view of the unique six-sided jet stream at Saturn's north...
A color-enhanced image shows cloud patterns moving around a hexagon -shaped storm om Satirm.
In the early morning hours of July 8, 2015, mission scientists received this new view of Pluto -- the most...
In the early morning hours of July 8, 2015, mission scientists received this new view of Pluto -- the most detailed yet returned by New Horizons. The image was taken on July 7, when the NASA spacecraft was just under 5 million miles 8 million kilometers
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has collected 36 powderized rock samples with the drill on the end of its robotic arm....
A montage of 36 drill holes in a variety of different soils.
This crescent view of Jupiter was taken by NASA Voyager 1 on Mar. 24, 1979.
This crescent view of Jupiter was taken by NASA Voyager 1 on Mar. 24, 1979.
Viking 1 Lander image of Chryse Planitia looking over the lander. The large white object at lower left and center,...
A rocky plain on Mars is visible over the top of the Viking 1 lander. Part of the top deck of the lander, including a large antenna dish, are visible in the foreground.
With giant Saturn hanging in the blackness and sheltering Cassini from the sun's blinding glare, the spacecraft viewed the rings...
Saturn and its glorious rings appear to glow in this image taken when the giant planet was backlit by the Sun.
This enhanced color picture of asteroid Ida and its moon Dactyl is made from images taken by the Galileo spacecraft...
Asteroid Ida is shaped like a baked potato. A small moon can be seen in its orbit.
This image is from data collected during the 147-minute plunge through Titan thick orange-brown atmosphere to a soft sandy riverbed...
This image is from data collected during the 147-minute plunge through Titan thick orange-brown atmosphere to a soft sandy riverbed by the European Space Agency Huygens Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer on Jan. 14, 2005.
Radar imaging from the Cassini Titan flyby of July 22, 2006, revealed lakes on the giant moon of Saturn. The...
A narrow enhanced radar map of titan highlights a series of more than 15 lakes.
This image was returned Jan. 14, 2005, by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe during its successful descent to land...
Small rocks dot the surface in this hazy reddish view of the surface of Titan.
This is a "geometrically improved" version of the 360- degree panorama heretofore known as the "Gallery Pan," the first contiguous,...
A rover the size of a child's wagon explores a large rock on the surface of Mars. The Pathfinder science station and rover tire tracks are visible in the foreground.
Reddish spots and shallow pits pepper the enigmatic ridged surface of Europa in this view combining information from images taken...
The icy terrain of Europa is crisscrossed by reddish stripes in this view from above.
A swing high above Saturn by NASA Cassini spacecraft revealed this stately view of the golden-hued planet and its main...
A swing high above Saturn by NASA Cassini spacecraft revealed this stately view of the golden-hued planet and its main rings. Saturn sports differently colored bands of weather in this image.
Dramatic plumes, both large and small, spray water ice and vapor from many locations along the famed "tiger stripes" near...
Fountains of ice erupt from the surface of Enceladus. The small moon is mostly in shadow, which makes the geysers illuminated by sunlight stand out.
This stunning false-color view of Saturn's moon Hyperion reveals crisp details across the strange, tumbling moon's surface. Differences in color...
Saturn's moon Hyperion
This rectangular version of a self-portrait of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity combines dozens of exposures taken by the rover's Mars...
A Mars rover is parked among the tire tracks it made on Mars in this composite image.
Iapetus show the extreme brightness dichotomy on the surface of this peculiar Saturnian moon.
The full disc view of this moon is dominated by a massive impact crater and a dark splatter of terrain hat stands out from the moon's surface.
This montage of views from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows three of Saturn's small ring moons: Atlas, Daphnis and Pan at...
a trio of ravioli-shaped small moons of Saturn.