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First Voyager view of the rings of Saturn

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Pictures taken from Voyager 1 between 3 September and 13 October 1980 at a resolution of ∼1,000 km/lp reveal new data on Saturn rings.

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  1. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, 91109

    Stewart A. Collins, Torrence V. Johnson & Richard J. Terrile

  2. Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138

    Allan F. Cook II

  3. NASA/Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, 94035

    Jeffrey N. Cuzzi & James B. Pollack

  4. Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 91125

    G. Edward Danielson

  5. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK

    Garry E. Hunt

  6. Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96822

    David Morrison

  7. State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York, 11790

    Tobias Owen

  8. Department of Planetary Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721

    Bradford A. Smith

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Collins, S., Cook, A., Cuzzi, J. et al. First Voyager view of the rings of Saturn. Nature 288, 439–442 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1038/288439a0

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