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PIA01388: Saturn's faint inner D-ring
Saturn's faint inner D-ring
Target Name: S Rings
Is a satellite of: Saturn
Mission: Voyager
Spacecraft: Voyager 2
Instrument: Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
Product Size: 460 samples x 724 lines
Produced By: JPL
Producer ID: P23967
Addition Date: 1999-01-05
Primary Data Set: Voyager EDRs
Full-Res TIFF: PIA01388.tif (100.2 kB)
Full-Res JPEG: PIA01388.jpg (42.82 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:
Voyager 2 took this picture of Saturn's faint inner D-ring Aug. 25 about 1 hour 48 minutes before the spacecraft's closest approach to Saturn. The range was 195,400 kilometers (121,300 miles) and phase angle was 166`. This view includes the sun's shadow across the ring. Voyager 1 saw this region in a similar view last fall, but this higher-resolution image shows many more ringlets and gaps. The D-ring is very tenuous and has an extremely small optical depth. The Voyager project is managed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
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