Voyager Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS)

Overview

The Voyager Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) consists of two cameras, narrow- angle and wide-angle. Images have been archived in chronological volumes based on Voyager’s Flight Data System (“FDS”) clock which is also the basis for the root filenames of the images.

The ISS Tabs

The tabs associated with this page describe the ISS data files and how to obtain them.

• Instrument - Access to descriptive information about the Voyager cameras.
• Images - Information about the raw and calibrated Voyager images.
• Derived Products - Provides direct access to:
  • All of the Voyager images of the Jovian rings.
  • A set of derived radial profiles from the finest-resolution Voyager images of Saturn’s rings. Profiles of both the lit and dark sides are included at a resolution of order 5 km.
• Legacy Images - Compressed, raw images as originally delivered to the PDS.

Data Set Information

The Voyager images are organized on a series of PDS volumes as follows:

• VGISS_5xxx: Images from the Jupiter flybys
  • VGISS_5101 to VGISS_5120: Images from the Voyager 1 flyby
  • VGISS_5201 to VGISS_5214: Images from the Voyager 2 flyby
• VGISS_6xxx: Images from the Saturn flybys
  • VGISS_6101 to VGISS_6121: Images from the Voyager 1 flyby
  • VGISS_6201 to VGISS_6215: Images from the Voyager 2 flyby

• VGISS_7xxx: Images from the Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus

• VGISS_8xxx: Images from the Voyager 2 flyby of Neptune

Image Galleries

The Ring-Moon Systems Node maintains a collection of the most popular press release images. Visit Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus or Neptune.

You can also find press release images at the Planetary Photojournal of the PDS Imaging Node.