Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Government agency: NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA)
Event Date: 1980-11-17
Medium: COLOR
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.236342

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, typed label: OFFICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION / JET PROPULSION LABORATORY / CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY / NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION / PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, 31109. TELEPHONE (213) 354-5011 / PHOTO CAPTION / TOP / P-23111 C / S-1-56 / November 17, 1980 / The underside of Saturn’s rings is shown in this photograph / taken by Voyager 1 on November 12, 1980, about eight hours / after the spacecraft crossed from the northern to the southern / side of the rings, and then hours before closest approach to / Saturn. This view of the rings is dramatically different / from the appearance earlier of the rings’ sunlit face. For / example, the B ring, which is the brightest region of the / sunlit face, appears dark when seen from the ring plane. (The / magenta color is an artifact, a result of efforts to computer / enhance this region). Yet, the normally dark Cassini Division / now shows as the brightest feature in the rings. Voyager 1 / was 740,000 kilometers from Saturn when it acquired this photo- / graph. The Voyager Project is managed by the Jet Propulsion / Laboratory for NASA; stamped label: [star shape] / Credit: [copyright] 1984 / from BLACK STAR

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: ASTRONOMY / SATURN
Retouching: N