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PIA00056: Triton - Detail of Dark and Light Material
NASA's Voyager 2 acquired this black and white image of Triton, Neptune's largest satellite, during the night of Aug. 24-25, 1989. Triton's limb cuts obliquely across the middle of the image. The field of view is about 1,000 km (600 miles) across.
 Target Name:  Triton
 Is a satellite of:  Neptune
 Mission:  Voyager 
 Spacecraft:  Voyager 2
 Instrument:  VG ISS - Narrow Angle 
 Product Size:  326 x 471 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Producer ID:  P34690  
 Addition Date:  1996-09-26 
 Primary Data Set:  Voyager EDRs 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA00056.tif (75.02 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA00056.jpg (14.41 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

Voyager 2 acquired this black and white image of Triton, Neptune's largest satellite, during the night of Aug. 24-25, 1989. Triton's limb cuts obliquely across the middle of the image. The field of view is about 1,000 km (600 miles) across. Three irregular dark areas, surrounded by brighter material, dominate the image. Low-lying material with intermediate albedo occupies the central area, and fresh craters occur along the right margin. Sub-parallel alignment of linear patches of dark material shown in the lower and left part of the image suggests that the patches are structurally controlled. The Voyager Mission is conducted by JPL for NASA's Office of Space Science and Applications.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
1996-09-26