Astronomy Picture of the Day

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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Publications with keywords: Saturn
Publications with words: Saturn
See also:

• Saturn s Ancient Rings
• Crescent Saturn
• Bright Planets, Crescent Moon
• The Great Basin on Saturns Tethys
• APOD: 2007 August 1- Unusual Cratering on Saturns Dione
• Neon Saturn
• Saturn from Below

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