PIA02272: Saturn's F-ring

Target Name: Saturn Is a satellite of: Sol (our sun) Mission: Voyager Spacecraft: Voyager 1 Instrument: Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle Product Size: 469 samples x 443 lines Produced By: JPL Producer ID: P23352 Addition Date: 2000-05-23 Primary Data Set: Voyager EDRs Full-Res TIFF: PIA02272.tif (11.28 kB) Full-Res JPEG: PIA02272.jpg (6.656 kB)

Original Caption Released with Image: The three separate components of Saturn's F-ring are seen in this image taken by NASA's Voyager l on Nov. 12, 1980, from a range of 750,000 kilometers (466,000) miles. Two prominent bright strands appear twisted and kinked, while the fainter, innermost third strand largely lacks such non-uniformities. The kinking appearance of the ring may be caused by the gravitational perturbations of two nearby satellites -- S-13 on the outside and S-14 on the inside -- or the effect may be caused by electromagnetic forces upon small F-ring particles. The Voyager project is managed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Image Credit: NASA/JPL