Voyager 1 – and its sibling ... open image in gallery An artist’s impression of Voyager I passing the rings of Saturn on its journey to the outer reaches of the solar system (Getty) It ...
Voyager 1 took this photo of Jupiter and two of its satellites (Io ... This approximate natural-color image shows Saturn, its rings, and four of its icy satellites. Three satellites (Tethys ...
NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer planets of our solar system.
But the moon’s wild volcanic activity wasn’t detected until Voyager 1 flew by Jupiter and its moons in 1979, revealing Io’s dynamic surface that resembled a pepperoni pizza, Bolton said.
Juno is also returning images unlike any we've ever seen, including of Jupiter's ring system. Jupiter's rings may not be as pronounced as Saturn's, but its ring system still extends to an ...
Voyager 1 visited Jupiter and Saturn and then kept on going and going. In 2012, it left our cosmic neighborhood and entered the space between stars. It was the first human-made object to leave our ...