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PIA02271: Crescent of Saturn
The crescent of Saturn, the planet's rings and their shadows are seen in this NASA Voyager 1 image taken Nov. 13, 1980 at a distance of 1,500,000 kilometers (930,000 miles) as the spacecraft began to leave the Saturn system.
 Target Name:  S Rings
 Is a satellite of:  Saturn
 Mission:  Voyager 
 Spacecraft:  Voyager 1
 Instrument:  VG ISS - Narrow Angle 
 Product Size:  797 x 797 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Producer ID:  P23110  
 Addition Date:  2000-05-23 
 Primary Data Set:  Voyager EDRs 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA02271.tif (112.6 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA02271.jpg (42.47 kB)  

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The crescent of Saturn, the planet's rings and their shadows are seen in this Voyager 1 image taken Nov. 13, 1980 at a distance of 1,500,000 kilometers (930,000 miles) as the spacecraft began to leave the Saturn system. The bright limb of Saturn is clearly visible through the A, B, and C rings. The dark band cutting through the crescent is the shadow of the rings. This image was overexposed to bring out detail in the rings, so the crescent appears artificially brighter. The Voyager Project is managed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
2000-05-23