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An account of the space journeys of NASA’s two robot spacecrafts ‘Voyager 1’ and ‘Voyager 2’ and their photographic records of the planet Jupiter.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory proposed a mission in the 1960s to send spacecraft to the giant outer planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. In 1977 Voyagers 1 & 2 were launched. The leading...
The discovery of Uranus in 1781 by William Herschel is compared with discoveries by Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 of additional moons for the outer planets, especially Uranus. Shows photographs of the moon and the...
Launched in 1977 to study the Solar system’s gas giant planets, Voyager 1 is still operating. But now it’s so far away that the Solar wind has weakened and a deluge of cosmic particles from intergalactic...
The ‘grand tour’ of Voyager 2 - the space probe that started to explore the outer solar system beginning in August 1977, and led to the outer reaches of the solar system. These pictures of the larger...
Pictures taken by Voyager 2. Includes clouds and rings, storms and satellites, spots and jet streams, the C ring, the A ring, Titan, F ring, Hyperion, Iapetus, Enceladus.
Over a period of six hours on 24th January 1986, the Uranian system was probed in detail and the dots that were its moons became new worlds. Voyager 2 discovered ten new moons in addition to the known five...
Follows the two Voyager spacecraft to Neptune, launched by NASA in 1977. Chronicles Voyager’s discoveries as it travels throughout the solar system. Features highlights from several earlier HORIZON...
Pictures taken by Voyager 1. Includes Saturn from 11 million miles, 8 million miles and 1 million miles; red spots; cloud belts; Dione; craters of Rhea; Titan; crater on Mimas, Iapetus.
Examines the information about the planet Saturn gathered during the expedition of NASA’s unmanned spacecraft Voyager 1.
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