Sent out shortly after its slower twin, Voyager 2, the space probe captured astonishing images of planets like Jupiter and Saturn ... of the most famous photos were captured during the Apollo missions ...
Our Solar System, like a sneaky little hobbit, seems to have stuffed its pockets full of hidden oceans. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all have moons astronomers think might be harboring liquid ...
This could shed new light on the findings from Voyager 2 several decades ago ... joining other possible oceans worlds like Jupiter’s Europa and Saturn’s Enceladus. A mission to Uranus would not only ...
The Magellan mission used synthetic aperture radar ... Two spacecraft, Galileo and Juno, have orbited Jupiter, and several others have flown by: Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Voyager 1, Voyager 2, Ulysses, ...
Voyager 1 and 2, NASA’s 1977 spacecrafts that visited Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus ... NASA timed their Voyager missions so that the gravity of one planet would allow the spacecraft to move to the other ...
This technique was famously employed during NASA’s Voyager missions. In 1966, NASA scientist Gary Flandro identified an alignment of Jupiter, Saturn ... This alignment enabled Voyager 2 to visit all ...
Both the Galileo and Cassini spacecraft were designed for primary missions deep in the outer solar system ... During Galileo’s Earth-2 flyby en route to Jupiter, JPL succeeded in transmitting laser ...