Astronomy Picture of the Day:
1995-07-31
Exploring Saturn's Rings

Image of Exploring Saturn's Rings
The explanation of the Astronomy Picture of the Day - Exploring Saturn's Rings
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.

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