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Neptune’s Rings
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Caption:
In Neptune's outermost ring, 39,000 miles out, material mysteriously clumps into three arcs. Voyager 2 acquired this image as it encountered Neptune in August of 1989.
Background Info:
JPL manages and controls the Voyager project for NASA's Office of Space Science.
Cataloging Keywords:
| Name | Value | Additional Values |
|---|---|---|
| Target | Neptune | Neptune Rings |
| System | Neptune | |
| Target Type | Planet | Ring |
| Mission | Voyager | |
| Instrument Host | Voyager 2 | |
| Host Type | Flyby Spacecraft | |
| Instrument | ||
| Detector | ||
| Extra Keywords | Clump, Disk, Grayscale | |
| Acquisition Date | ||
| Release Date | 1998-10-30 | |
| Date in Caption | ||
| Image Credit | NASA/JPL | |
| Source | photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01493 | |
| Identifier | PIA01493 | |
