Over the course of 43 hours, in June 1981, the Voyager 2 spacecraft captured over 530 monochrome frames of Saturn with its narrow-angle camera. Aligned and colorized using subsequent Voyager data, these frames reveal cloud features, ring spokes, and eight of the gas giant's attendant moons, ranging from massive Titan to diminutive Epimetheus.
The sequence has been looped multiple times here, sometimes with additive frames to reveal the moons' orbital paths. (Note the relatively high inclination of Mimas's orbit compared to the other satellites.)
This sequence was produced using calibrated data sourced from OPUS (opus.pds-rings.seti.org).
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Credit: NASA/JPL/Caltech/Ian Regan
