Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Planetary Photo Journal Collection
Title:
Uranus' largest moon Oberon
Original Caption Released with Image:
Uranus' outermost and largest moon, Oberon, is seen in this Voyager 2 image, obtained Jan. 22, 1986, from a distance of 2.77 million kilometers (1.72 million miles). The clear-filter image, shuttered by Voyager's narrow-angle camera, shows that Oberon displays several distinct highly reflective (high-albedo) patches with low-albedo centers. Some of the bright patches are suggestive of radial patterns that could represent impact craters excavated from an icy surface. On average, Oberon reflects about 20 percent of the incident sunlight. The moon is about 1,600 km (1,000 mi) in diameter; resolution of this image is 51 km (32 mi). It was taken two days before Voyager's closest approach to Oberon, at which point the spacecraft will be about 471,000 km (293,000 mi) away. The Voyager project is managed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Addition Date:
1998-10-13
Produced By:
JPL
Mission:
Voyager
Spacecraft:
Voyager 2
Target Name:
Oberon
Is a satellite of:
Uranus
Instrument:
Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
Product Size:
1500 samples x 1500 lines
Primary Data Set:
Voyager EDRs
Producer ID:
P29480
facet_what:
Moon
facet_what:
Voyager
facet_what:
Voyager 2
facet_what:
Uranus
facet_what:
Oberon
facet_what:
Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS)
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
facet_where:
Uranus
facet_where:
Oberon
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Image #:
PIA01352
UID:
SPD-PHOTJ-PIA01352
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Uranus' largest moon Oberon