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 ...
NASA Voyager 1 probe discovers Saturn’s moon, Epimetheus. Saturn would be the last planet Voyager 1 would visit before ...
The original mission was meant to last four years as the probe visited Jupiter and Saturn. It’s now spent 46 years in space, making Voyager 1 and its twin Voyager 2 the longest-operating ...
NASA launched two golden records into space on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 in 1977 as a way ... identified the intricacies of Saturn's rings, and took the first close-up photographs of Uranus and ...
This view of the dark Cassini Division, which separates Saturn’s outer A-ring from the inner B-ring, was taken on August 23, 1981, when Voyager 2 was about 1.7 million miles from the planet.
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 ...