Saturn's Rings
Photograph
Saturn's Rings
November 6, 1980
Gelatin silver print
Image: 8 9/16 × 7 9/16 in. (21.7 × 19.2 cm)
Paper: 9 15/16 × 8 1/16 in. (25.3 × 20.4 cm)
Matted: 16 15/16 × 14 × 1/8 in. (43 × 35.5 × 0.3 cm)
Gift of NASA
Inscriptions verso (applied label, typed): PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE/JET PROPULSION LABORATORY/CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY/NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION/PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, 91109. TELEPHONE: (213) 354-5011/PHOTO CAPTION (TOP) P-23068 BW/ S-1-18/ Nov. 8, 1980/ This computer-assembled two-image mosaic of Saturn's rings,/ taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Nov. 6, 1980 at a range of 8 million/ kilometers (5 million miles), shows approximately 95 individual/ concentric features in the rings. The extraordinarily complex/ structure of the rings is easily seen across the entire span/ of the ring system. The ring structure, once thought to be/ produced by the gravitational interaction between Saturn's/ satellites and the orbit of ring particles, has now been/ found to be too complex for this explanation alone. The 14th/ satellite of Saturn, discovered by Voyager 1, is seen (upper/ left) just inside the narrow F-ring, which is less than 150/ kilometers (93 miles wide). The Voyager Project is managed/ for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
