| NASA Center: |
Ames Research Center |
|---|
| Image # : |
79-H-432
|
|---|
| Date : |
08/31/1979
|
|---|
|
Title
Pioneer 11 Image of Saturn and its Moon Titan
Full Description
NASA's Pioneer 11 image of Saturn and its moon Titan at the upper
left.
The irregularities in ring silhouette and shadow are due to
technical anomalies in the preliminary data later corrected.
Looking at the rings from left to right, the ring area begins with
the outer A ring; the Encke Division; the inner A Ring; Cassini
Division; the B Ring; the C Ring; and the innermost area where the D
Ring would be.
The image was made by Pioneer Saturn on Wednesday, August 26, 1979,
and received on Earth at 3:19 pm PDT. Pioneer was, at that time,
2,846,000 kilometers (1,768,422 miles) from Saturn. The image was
produced by computer at the University of Arizona and managed by
NASA's Ames Research Center.
Keywords
Saturn Rings Cassini Division Encke Division Pioneer 11 Titan
Subject Category
Space Probes, Planetary Astronomy, Saturns Moons, Planet-Saturn
Reference Numbers
- Center:
AMES
- Center Number:
79-H-432
- GRIN DataBase Number:
GPN-2002-000060
Source Information
- Creator/Photographer: NASA
- Original Source: DIGITAL
| Resolution | Format | Width
(Pixels) | Height
(Pixels) | Size
(KBytes) |
Thumbnail |
JPEG |
90 |
61 |
6 |
Small |
JPEG |
640 |
436 |
140 |
Medium |
JPEG |
1500 |
1022 |
659 |
Large |
JPEG |
3000 |
2044 |
1,873 |
Other relevant NASA Web sites:
• NASA Headquarters
• NASA History Office
• NASA Image eXchange (NIX)
• NASA Multimedia Gallery
• NASA Human Spaceflight
Updated October 31, 2002
• History Questions: NASA History Office
• Responsible NASA Official: Steve Garber
• Author: Michael Hahn. Editor: Dwayne A. Day
• Curator & Technical Questions: Erin Needham
• NASA's Privacy Statement
|
