Jupiter’s ice-covered ocean moon Europa floats above the planet’s Great Red Spot in this 1979 image from Voyager 1. This is a ...

On February 14, 1990, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took the ... The picture is actually a mosaic that combines sixty frames. It shows Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, Venus and Earth, which ...

Voyager 1 swept past Jupiter in 1979, using the planet’s tremendous ... Voyager 1 captured this mosaic portrait of 6 of the Solar System’s 8 planets (and the Sun) from above the plane of ...

By Orlando Mayorquin When Voyager 1 launched in 1977, scientists hoped it could do what it was built to do and take up-close images of Jupiter and Saturn. It did that — and much more.

The prime missions for both Voyagers were to visit Jupiter and Saturn ... It was one of the photos in Voyager 1’s Family Portrait, featuring a mosaic of 60 frames and frames of six planets ...

Voyager 1 – and its sibling ... Within a couple of years, they had visited Jupiter and Saturn, their primary mission was declared finished in 1980, and by the late 1980s, they had flown ...

Voyager 1 might be our emissary to alien life – an audible time capsule of Earth's beings. Since its launch, it also managed to complete missions to Jupiter and Saturn. In 2012, it crossed into ...

after Voyager 1, which is over 15 billion miles away. In 1979, Voyager 2 made a flyby of Jupiter, passing through the subsolar magnetosheath—the layer of the planet’s magnetosphere that is ...

After many months of extremely long-distance repairs, NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe is fully operational ... was to study the outer planets of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, but they ...

Even though Voyager 1 was launched a little later, it reached Jupiter first in 1979 as it took a trajectory that put it on a faster path. Voyager 2 began transmitting images of Jupiter from April ...