PIA01964: Saturn's Ring Region
 Target Name:  S Rings
 Is a satellite of:  Saturn
 Mission:  Voyager
 Spacecraft:  Voyager 2
 Instrument:  VG ISS - Narrow Angle
 Product Size:  465 x 350 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  JPL
 Producer ID:  P23968
 Addition Date:  1999-04-28
 Primary Data Set:  Voyager EDRs
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA01964.tif (43.54 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA01964.jpg (33.79 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This long exposure of the ring region about 150,000 to 200,000 kilometers (90,000 to 120,000 miles) from the center of Saturn captured the very faint G-ring, seen at left. The ring was discovered by Voyager 1 last fall at a similar phase angle. Voyager 2 was about 305,000 km. (189,000 mi.) away when it took this image Aug. 26. The small rectangular dots forming a regular pattern are reseau (reference) marks on the Voyager vidicon camera. The high-resolution detail in the A-ring has been washed out by the very long exposure needed to bring out the very tenuous G-ring. The Voyager project is managed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
1999-04-28