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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day

🌌 NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day

Exploring Saturn's Rings

Date: 1995-07-31

Exploring Saturn's Rings

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Explanation:

July 31, 1995 Exploring Saturn's Rings Credit: 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 .