[The Big Picture] A tour of the Solar System

Currently, there are many spacecraft was launched into space by NASA, or the European Space Agency (ESA), and other countries, to collect information about the solar system. We have our spacecraft orbit the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars and Saturn. Some other spacecraft continues on the road to the smaller planets, while others are leaving the solar system. Although the shuttle was no longer flying, but the astronauts still working tirelessly on the international space station ISS, conducting experiments and send images back to Earth. In this photo gallery, we have the opportunity to view impressive images sent from the satellite, the spacecraft is working in the Solar System.

A photograph of the sun on 07/03 / 2012, seen through ultraviolet wavelengths by atmospheric photography department probe placed on the NASA Solar SDO. The curve shows the discharge plasma and fall to the magnetic field lines in the solar atmosphere, also known as the solar corona. Bright spot located above named areas of operation in 1429 ... the picture shows a large explosion on the sun on 05/03/2012, forming a large solar storm launched into space. so Lovejoy toward the sun (left), interacting with the atmosphere of the sun with temperatures more than 1 million degrees C, and then fly out of there dramatically. Previously, astronomers believe that comets would be Lovejoy burned completely after passing through the extreme heat of the sun. However, Comet Lovejoy flew out of the solar atmosphere which retains nearly the same brightness with time before it flew on. The partial eclipse from space, 02.21.2012 , when the moon around mid-ship flight observations of NASA's SDO sun and the sun. On 5/12/2011, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft orbits of Mercury and sent photographs of the top middle of the Eminescu crater.Eminescu crater with a diameter of 125 km wide, new and recently named in honor of poet Eminescu Romania. Space Station ISS (in the upper left corner) flying over the moon, taken from Houston, Texas, 04 / 01/2012. ISS orbit 390km in length with six astronauts inside. Snapshot surface of the moon, where Apollo 15 landing ships, from aircraft around the Lunar Reconnaissance lunar orbit on 06/11 / in 2011. Apollo 15 was the 9th mission in the Apollo space program, and is the fourth man to set foot on the moon, 30.07.1971. Commander David Scott and pilots landing module (Lunar Module) James Irwin spent three days on the moon, in which most of the time is self-propelled vehicle in the LRV-1, it took them to go the distance 27.76 km on the surface of the moon. In the photo above, the position of the Apollo 15 landing is located in the middle, slightly to the right, with a white point. The black lines on the right leads to the location of the LRV-1, it is still on the moon. The moon sets progressively later the earth, it distorted when viewed through Earth's atmosphere from space station ISS , 09.01.2012. night scene seen from the ISS to the area of the Atlantic coast of the United States, 06/02/2012. Astronaut of the European Space Agency Andre Kuipers, flight engineers Expedition 30, watching the earth through the door of the chamber Cupola on the ISS space station, 24/12/2011. The Russian car run support to help the astronauts aboard the Soyuz TMA-02M shortly after it landed on the outskirts of the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, 22.11.2011. The ship had put three astronauts Mike Fossum, Sergei Volkov and Satoshi Furukawa to Earth after more than five months working on the ISS. Russia's support staff to help the crew members of Expedition 29 flight leaving Soyuz TMA-02M ship after safely. A re-supply equipment to develop unmanned ISS is approaching the station, carrying a total of 2 tons of cargo, including food, water, gas oxygen, the components and test equipment. Photo taken on 12/01/2012. A spiral cloud and streaks of blue light phenomenon aurora borealis, seen from the ISS, flying over the Gulf of Alaska, 10.02.2012. our blue planet. Blue Marble Earth image captured by the device Visible / Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on NPP Suomi new satellite show the beautiful details of our planet. Suomi NPP satellite was launched on May 10/2011 and was renamed last week under the name of Verner Suomi - considered the father of satellite meteorology. The picture was compiled from data obtained when the satellite in orbit four hours earlier this month and a digital projector on Earth. Many details of North America and Western Hemisphere shown in a version with high resolution of this picture. Previously there were some photos of the Blue Marble Earth ever made, some of them even higher resolution. Comet Lovejoy flying near Earth's horizon in the night, taken by commanders Ship Expedition 30 Dan Burbank, on the ISS, 21/12/2011. surface of Mars, in an image is color correction provided by NASA and launched on 25/01/2012. Shown is the sand dunes in a crater in Terra Noachis area. Wide area of about 1km. A part fracture surface area Echus Chasma on Mars, taken on Christmas Day 2011, by THEMIS devices placed on the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, which sent images of Mars on Earth since 02/2002. 8 years period on Mars dust that covered the solar panels - 23 Photographs of the south pole of the asteroid Vesta by camera system aboard the Universe made head of NASA's Dawn. This photo was taken from a distance of 2.700km. A photograph of Jupiter in 1979 by NASA's Voyager spacecraft, which was published recently Björn Jonsson. Saturn's moon Mimas appears behind "the goods neighbor "is larger than it is the moon Dione, Cassini images taken by NASA satellites, 12/12/2011. moon Hyperion image of Saturn, taken by Cassini satellite, 25.08.2011. On Rhea moon Titan fly front, the two moons are the orbits of Saturn. Snapshot rhymes clouds dancing on the surface of Saturn taken by Cassini satellite, 08.01.2011. shape look found in the form of a crescent moon Dione, orbiting Saturn, taken on 12/12/2011. the fourth largest moon of Saturn, Dione, looking through the haze of the largest moon orbiting Saturn is Titan .