Catalog Page for PIA01143

Find a Node - Use these links to navigate to any of the 8 publicly accessible PDS Nodes.

This bar indicates that you are within the PDS enterprise which includes 6 science discipline nodes and 2 support nodes which are overseen by the Project Management Office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). Each node is led by an expert in the subject discipline, supported by an advisory group of other practitioners of that discipline, and subject to selection and approval under a regular NASA Research Announcement.

PIA01143: Saturn With Rhea and Dione (false color)

NASA's Voyager 2 took this 'false color' photograph of Saturn on July 21, 1981, when the spacecraft was 33.9 million kilometers (21 million miles) from the planet.

Target Name:	Saturn
Is a satellite of:	Sol (our sun)
Mission:	Voyager
Spacecraft:	Voyager 2
Instrument:	VG ISS - Narrow Angle
Product Size:	1000 x 1000 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	JPL
Addition Date:	1998-08-28
Primary Data Set:	Voyager EDRs
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA01143.tif (689.2 kB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA01143.jpg (41.04 kB)

Click on the image above to download a moderately sized image in JPEG format (possibly reduced in size from original)

Original Caption Released with Image:: NASA's Voyager 2 took this 'false color' photograph of Saturn on July 21, 1981, when the spacecraft was 33.9 million kilometers (21 million miles) from the planet. Two bright, presumably convective cloud patterns are visible in the mid-northern hemisphere and several dark spoke-like features can be seen in the broad B-ring (left of planet). The moons Rhea and Dione appear as blue dots to the south and southeast of Saturn, respectively. Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Saturn on Aug. 25, 1981. The Voyager project is managed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Image Credit:: NASA/JPL
Image Addition Date:: 1998-08-28