Cameras & Imaging

Cassini's wide- and narrow-angle cameras, which imaged Saturn, its rings, and its moons in unprecedented detail over thirteen years.

Dawn's camera, which mapped the giant asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres, including the bright carbonate deposits of Ceres's Occator crater.

An instrument that captures both an image and a spectrum for every pixel, mapping the composition of a surface or atmosphere by the wavelengths of light it reflects or emits.

Juno's wide-angle visible-light camera, included partly for public engagement, which has returned spectacular images of Jupiter's turbulent poles and cloud bands.

New Horizons's high-resolution narrow-angle telescope camera, which returned the first detailed images of Pluto and the Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth.

OSIRIS-REx's camera suite, which mapped the asteroid Bennu in detail and documented the touch-and-go sample collection.

An imaging instrument that records visible (and often near-infrared or ultraviolet) light — the eyes of a spacecraft, from wide-angle context cameras to high-resolution narrow-angle telescopes.

The Voyager cameras, which returned the first close-up images of the outer planets and their moons, and the 'Pale Blue Dot' portrait of Earth.