NASA - Pioneer 11 Image of Saturn and its Moon Titan

Hola amigos: A VUELO DE UN QUINDE EL BLOG., la Agencia espacial NASA, nos alcanza una maravillosa visión  captada por el Satélite The Pioneer 11 spacecraft al planeta Saturno con sus discos que lo rodean y está su luna Titan.

El satélite fue lanzado el 5 de abril de 1,973 y se encuentra a 21,000  kilómetros, este instrumento espacial ha descubierto dos nuevas lunas del planeta Saturno.

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Pioneer 11 Image of Saturn and Its Moon Titan

The Pioneer 11 spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral forty years ago, on April 5, 1973. Pioneer 11's path through Saturn's outer rings took it within 21,000 km of the planet, where it discovered two new moons (almost smacking into one of them in September 1979) and a new "F" ring. The spacecraft also discovered and charted the magnetosphere, magnetic field and mapped the general structure of Saturn's interior. The spacecraft's instruments measured the heat radiation from Saturn's interior and found that its planet-sized moon, Titan, was too cold to support life.

This image from Pioneer 11 shows Saturn and its moon Titan. The irregularities in ring silhouette and shadow are due to technical anomalies in the preliminary data later corrected. At the time this image was taken, Pioneer was 2,846,000 km (1,768,422 miles) from Saturn.

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