Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Planetary Photo Journal Collection
Title:
Ariel's transecting valleys
Original Caption Released with Image:
This highest-resolution Voyager 2 view of Ariel's terminator shows a complex array of transecting valleys with super-imposed impact craters. Voyager obtained this clear-filter, narrow-angle view from a distance of 130,000 kilometers (80,000 miles) and with a resolution of about 2.4 km (1.5 mi). Particularly striking to Voyager scientists is the fact that the faults that bound the linear valleys are not visible where they transect one another across the valleys. Apparently these valleys were filled with deposits sometime after they were formed by tectonic processes, leaving them flat and smooth. Sinuous rilles (trenches) later formed, probably by some flow process. Some type of fluid flow may well have been involved in their evolution. The Voyager project is managed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Addition Date:
1998-12-05
Produced By:
JPL
Mission:
Voyager
Spacecraft:
Voyager 2
Target Name:
Ariel
Is a satellite of:
Uranus
Instrument:
Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
Product Size:
512 samples x 512 lines
Primary Data Set:
Voyager EDRs
Producer ID:
P29518
facet_what:
Voyager
facet_what:
Voyager 2
facet_what:
Uranus
facet_what:
Ariel
facet_what:
Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS)
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
facet_where:
Uranus
facet_where:
Ariel
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Image #:
PIA01356
UID:
SPD-PHOTJ-PIA01356
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Ariel's transecting valleys