VICAR is an image file format developed by the NASA's

Jet Propulsion Laboratory The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a Federally funded research and development centers, federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) in La Cañada Flintridge, California, Crescenta Valley, United States. Founded in 1936 by Cali ...

. It is used to transport images from a variety of space missions including

Cassini–Huygens ''Cassini–Huygens'' ( ), commonly called ''Cassini'', was a space research, space-research mission by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a space probe to study the planet Saturn and its system, i ...

and the Viking Orbiter.

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Collection of images from the Cassini orbiterVICAR2PNG
a tool that converts VICAR images. Jet Propulsion Laboratory Computer file formats {{comp-sci-stub