Voyager Photopolarimeter Subsystem (PPS)

Overview

Voyager’s Photopolarimeter Subsystem (PPS) instrument acquired fine-resolution stellar occultation profiles of the ring systems of Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

This data set has been archived by the Ring-Moon Systems Node as volume VG_2801.

The PPS Tabs

The tabs associated with this page describe the PPS data set and how to obtain ring occultation profiles.

  • Instrument - Descriptive information about the instrument.
  • Archive Data - Information about and links to the PPS data set as published by the PDS Ring-Moon Systems Node.
  • Standard Profiles - Links to ASCII tables of ring opacity vs. radius.