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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...
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...
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...
Uranus is two billion miles from earth, 50 times its size and shrouded in an opaque smoggy atmosphere. Voyager 2, an unmanned spacecraft, travelled past Uranus early in 1986. The scientific interest centred...
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...
Twelve 12-minute programmes. 1: A ride into space. 2: Venus and Mercury. 3: Earth and Mars. 4: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus. 5: Orian and related bodies. 6: Includes footage of a total eclipse of the sun. 7: A...
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...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Rebecca Sheir traces the little-known tale of the 27 known moons of Uranus nearly all of which have Shakespearean names. Through the voices of historians,...
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