Oberon at Voyager Closest Approach
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Oberon at Voyager Closest Approach
January 24, 1986
Chromogenic development print
Image: 19.4 x 20.5 cm
Overall: 20.2 x 25.6 cm
Gift of NASA and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Inscriptions verso (applied label, typed): PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE/ JET PROPULSION LABORATORY/ CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY/ NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION/ PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, 91109. TELEPHONE: (818) 354-5011/ PHOTO CAPTION (TOP) P-29501 C/ U-2-20/ 1/25/86/ This Voyager 2 picture of Oberon is the best the spacecraft/ acquired of Uranus' outermost moon. The picture was taken/ shortly after 3:30 a.m. PST on Jan. 24, 1986, from a distance/ of 660,000 kilometers (410,000 miles). The color was/ reconstructed from images taken through the narrow-angle/ camera's violet, clear and green filters. The picture shows/ features as small as 12 km (7 mi) on the moon's surface./ Clearly visible are several large impact craters in Oberon's/ icy surface surrounded by bright rays similar to those seen/ on Jupiter's moon Callisto. Quite prominent near the center/ of Oberon's disk is a large crater with a bright central peak/ and a floor partially covered with very dark material. This/ may be icy, carbon-rich material erupted onto the crater/ floor sometime after the crater formed. Another striking/ topographic feature is a large mountain, about 6 km (4 mi)/ high, peeking out on the lower left limb. The Voyager/ project is managed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory./ #####
