University Daily Kansan, August 24, 1981 Page 11
Photos sharp as Voyager nears Saturn
PASADENA, Calif.,—Voyager 2 moved closer to Saturn yesterday as it transmitted spectacular pictures to earthbound scientists seeking to understand the planet's dazzling rings and moons.
The task of Voyager 2 was to take more than 260 pictures of Saturn's clouds, plus a total of 90 images of the moons Hyperion, Dione, Rhea, Titan and Iapetus. Saturn has 17 known moons.
While still 1.6 million miles away from Saturn, which is nearly a billion miles from Earth, the spacecraft was to carry out a 20-picture search for any undiscovered new satellites that may be circling the gaseous planet.
Voyager 2 makes its closest approach to Saturn at 8:50 p.m. CDT tomorrow, when it will swoop to within 63,000 miles of its clouds. It will be 14,300 miles closer to the ringed planet than Voyager's approach nine months ago.
Voyager 2 flew within 560,000 miles of Iapetus Saturday and transmitted about 30 detailed pictures. Scientists hope the photographs will reveal why the surface of the moon is six times darker on one side than the other.
One theory holds that Iapetus originally was an icy sphere, but that it has been showered and partly covered by a mantle of rocks neighboring Saturnian moon. Phoebe
Another theory holds that the dark surface is indigenous to the moon and that its covering layers of ice have been dropped off, exposing the underlying rock.
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