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Voyager 1 view of Saturn, taken after its close pass of the planet. (NASA/JPL) Layers of haze covering Saturn’s moon Titan are seen in this image taken by Voyager 1 on Nov. 12, 1980 at a range ...
And half of the 50 years, NASA Voyager 1 has spent billions of miles traveling into interstellar space. In October, it went ...
Voyager 2 also visited Uranus and Neptune, while Voyager 1 instead prioritized Saturn's giant moon Titan, which sent it on a new trajectory to the edge of the solar system.
Voyager 1's flyby of Jupiter in March 1979 brought humanity face to face with the gas giant's captivating and chaotic realm. ... Voyager 1's journey continued to Saturn in November 1980, ...
Voyager 1 defied the odds yet again—after over six months of technical issues potentially foreshadowing humanity’s final farewell to the historic spacecraft, NASA reports all four of the probe ...
“So the decision was made that Voyager 1 would go to Jupiter, and Saturn with Titan. ... And so, after all the planetary encounters with a close flyby of Neptune with Voyager 2, ...
Originally planned as a five-year mission to Saturn and Jupiter, NASA's Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes have continued deep into the solar system, thanks to their simple, smart engineering.
The Pioneer 11 spacecraft launched from Earth on April 5, 1973, and completed a flyby of the ringed giant on Sept. 1, 1979. NASA's Voyager 1 flew past Saturn in 1980 and, along with Voyager 2 ...
Planetary scientist Fran Bagenal first encountered NASA’s Voyager spacecraft during a student job in the late 1970s. Get her take on following these spacecraft for nearly 50 years, as they traveled to ...