PIA02291: Iapetus
This narrow-angle camera image of Saturn's mysterious satellite Iapetus was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 through the Clear filter from a distance of 2.5 million km on 15 November 1980.
 Target Name:  Iapetus
 Is a satellite of:  Saturn
 Mission:  Voyager 
 Spacecraft:  Voyager 1
 Instrument:  VG ISS - Narrow Angle 
 Product Size:  174 x 433 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Producer ID:  PIA02291  
 Primary Data Set:  Voyager EDRs 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA02291.tif (3.336 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA02291.jpg (2.039 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This narrow-angle camera image of Saturn's mysterious satellite Iapetus was taken through the Clear filter from a distance of 2.5 million km on 15 November 1980. The dramatic brightness change between hemispheres is clearly seen here. Even with the bright side overexposed, the dark surface is still not visible. JPL managed the Voyager Project for NASA's Office of Space Science.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
2000-05-25