On March 4, 1979, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft took the first photos of rings around Jupiter. This was the first time anyone had seen Jupiter’s rings. Because the rings are so thin and faint ...

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 ...

Linda Spilker, the Voyager mission’s project scientist, spoke to Gizmodo about the challenges that come with operating the ...

Since Voyager 1 blasted off in 1977, it has skirted past the kaleidoscopic clouds of Jupiter and the icy rings of Saturn. The spacecraft is now 124 times farther from the Sun than we are ...

In 1979, NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft zipped by the ... the data revealed that giant Jupiter sports thin, dusty rings. Planet Jupiter, explained And when NASA's Juno spacecraft began orbiting ...

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 ...