Title

Full view of Saturn and her rings, 1980. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Full view of Saturn and her rings, 1980. This picture, taken from Voyager 1 at 34 million kilometres, clearly shows the cloud patterns on the planet and the gap in the ring system. Two Voyager spacecraft were launched in 1977 to explore the planets in the outer solar system. Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter at 278,000 kilometres in March 1979 and then past Saturn at a height of 124,000 kilometres in November 1980.
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1980

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/NASA

Reference

HRM19B63_254

Model release

Non

License type

Droits gérés

Available size

49,9Mo (2,0Mo) / 31,5cm x 39,7cm / 3722 x 4687 (300dpi)

Keywords

England space planet exploration science solar system astronomy color colour century city of london concept orbit natural phenomena NASA Eighties 1980s 20th century Oxford Science Archive decade TGN photograph Unknown National Aeronautics and Space Administration photograph