9 Ghostly Planets: Media
Were they ever out there to begin with?
Images
Le Verrier, Urbain-Jean-Joseph
Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C., (SIL-SIL14-l003-02)
Kepler-62f
Artist's conception of Kepler-62f, a super-Earth-size planet in the habitable zone...
NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech
Mars: Tharsis province
Topographic map of the Tharsis province of Mars made from high-resolution altimetry...
MOLA Science Team
Ceres: bright spots
The dwarf planet Ceres in a photograph taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on February...
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DKLR/IDA
Pluto
Pluto as observed by the New Horizons spacecraft, July 13, 2015.
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
Comet Wild 2
The icy nucleus of Comet Wild 2, in a composite image taken by the U.S. Stardust...
NASA/JPL/Stardust/University of Washington, Seattle
The Chicxulub asteroid
An artist's rendering of the impact of a near-Earth object 66 million years ago in...
NASA; illustration by Don Davis