PIA01493: Neptune's Rings
In Neptune's outermost ring, 39,000 miles out, material mysteriously clumps into three arcs. Voyager 2 acquired this image as it encountered Neptune in August of 1989.
 Target Name:  Neptune
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Voyager 
 Spacecraft:  Voyager 2
 Product Size:  1469 x 1160 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Producer ID:  P35060  
 Addition Date:  1998-10-30 
 Primary Data Set:  Voyager EDRs 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA01493.tif (369.4 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA01493.jpg (144.6 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:

In Neptune's outermost ring, 39,000 miles out, material mysteriously clumps into three arcs. Voyager 2 acquired this image as it encountered Neptune in August of 1989.

JPL manages and controls the Voyager project for NASA's Office of Space Science.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
1998-10-30