This is the Web Edition of "A Trip Into Space", a Coimbra-based electronic book on space science. Both the texts and the photos are by courtesy of National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
| This is the Web Edition of "A Trip Into Space", a Coimbra-based electronic book on space science. Both the texts and the photos are by courtesy of National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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A Trip Into Space  Neptune Satellites And Rings Neptune's Satellite Larissa |
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| See also: Neptunian Satellite Fact Sheet |   |
Detail of Voyager 2 image showing Neptune's Satellite Larissa. Larissa has dimensions of 210 x 180 x 180 km and is about 175 km in this image. The moon orbits Neptune in about 13 hours, 20 minutes at a distance of 48,800 km above the cloud tops. The image was taken on 24 August 1989 from a distance of about 2,450,000 km. North is at 12:30. (Voyager 2, FDS 11381.48)
Last Update: 2004-Nov-27