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Collection:
NASA Solarsystem Collection
title:
Triton - Detail of Dark and Light Material
description:
Voyager 2 acquired this black and white image of Triton, Neptune's largest satellite, during the night of Aug. 24-25, 1989. Triton's limb cuts obliquely across the middle of the image. The field of view is about 1,000 km (600 miles) across.

Three irregular dark areas, surrounded by brighter material, dominate the image. Low-lying material with intermediate albedo occupies the central area, and fresh craters occur along the right margin. Sub-parallel alignment of linear patches of dark material shown in the lower and left part of the image suggests that the patches are structurally controlled.

The Voyager Mission is conducted by JPL for NASA's Office of Space Science and Applications.

*Image Credit*: JPL
date:
08.24.1989
keywords:
Solar System Exploration
keywords:
SSE
keywords:
Space
keywords:
NASA
keywords:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
keywords:
JPL
keywords:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
keywords:
Planets
facet_what:
Voyager
facet_what:
Voyager 2
facet_what:
Neptune
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
facet_where:
Triton
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
facet_when:
08-24-1989
facet_when_year:
1989
UID:
SPD-SLRSY-2067
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Triton - Detail of Dark and Light Material