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Credit & Copyright: NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Voyager Project
Explanation:
By watching a star flicker and fade as it passed behind Saturn's rings,
NASA's
Voyager 2
spacecraft was able explore
the ring system in amazing detail. Data produced by
Voyager's instruments as the star Delta Scorpii was occulted by
some of the outer rings
was used to reconstruct this image
which shows details almost 1000 times
smaller than normally possible with Voyager's cameras.
For more information about the picture see the NASA, JPL press release .
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& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: Saturn
Publications with words: Saturn
See also:
- APOD: 2025 September 25 Á Saturn Opposite the Sun
- APOD: 2025 September 22 Á Equinox at Saturn
- APOD: 2025 February 23 Á Saturn in Infrared from Cassini
- APOD: 2024 December 8 Á Aurora around Saturns North Pole
- Saturn at Night
- APOD: 2024 August 27 Á Moon Eclipses Saturn
- APOD: 2024 June 23 Á The Colors of Saturn from Cassini