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Voyager 1 observed Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn’s moon Titan before becoming the first human-made object to reach interstellar space. Voyager 2 gave scientists second looks at Jupiter and Saturn ...
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How Did Saturn Get Its Rings?
(Saturn’s inner moons orbit within the E ring.) The slender F ring had to wait for Pioneer 11 to make its debut, and the most recently discovered ring, G, was discovered in 1980 by Voyager 1.
NASA has confirmed that one of its greatest ever missions, Voyager 1, is back in business with communications ... discovered a wealth of detail about Jupiter and Saturn's moons, including the ...
Launched 40 years ago, the Voyager space probes are on a grand tour of the cosmos that nearly ended at Saturn. Launched in August and September 1977, NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft have opened ...
making it too bright for us to easily see. Per Earth Sky, spotting Saturn is difficult between February and May. One day, though, Saturn's rings really will disappear. In 1981, NASA's Voyager 2 ...
Voyager 1 detected a small ring around Jupiter and many of Saturn's moons during its flybys. Voyager 2 remains the only spacecraft to have visited Uranus and Neptune, providing data about these ...
NASA's spacecraft, Cassini, has been orbiting the ringed-planet Saturn for ... were surprised to see the cracks. Earlier, lower-resolution photos of the moon, snapped by Voyager 2, suggested ...