| NASA Center: |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
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| Image # : |
PIA01536 |
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| Date : |
08/25/1998
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Title
Detail of Triton
Full Description
This color photo of Neptune's large satellite Triton was obtained on
Aug. 24 1989 at a range of 530,000 kilometers (330,000 miles). The
resolution is about 10 kilometers (6.2 miles), sufficient to begin to
show topographic detail.
The image was made from pictures taken through the green, violet and
ultraviolet filters. In this technique, regions that are highly
reflective in the ultraviolet appear blue in color. In reality, there
is no part of Triton that would appear blue to the eye. The bright
southern hemisphere of Triton, which fills most of this frame, is
generally pink in tone as is the even brighter equatorial band. The
darker regions north of the equator also tend to be pink or reddish in
color.
JPL manages the Voyager project for NASA's Office of Space Science,
Washington, DC.
Keywords
Triton Neptune Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL Voyager
Subject Category
Voyager-Galileo, Neptunes Moons,
Reference Numbers
- Center:
JPL
- Center Number:
PIA01536
- GRIN DataBase Number:
GPN-2000-000422
Source Information
- Creator/Photographer: NASA
- Original Source: DIGITAL
| Resolution | Format | Width
(Pixels) | Height
(Pixels) | Size
(KBytes) |
Thumbnail |
.jpg |
58 |
69 |
9 |
Small |
.jpg |
413 |
489 |
173 |
Medium |
.jpg |
967 |
1146 |
1,011 |
Large |
.jpg |
1934 |
2292 |
4,419 |
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