NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft took the first photos of rings around Jupiter. This was the first time anyone had seen Jupiter’s ...
Voyager 2 preceded it into space by 16 days, but Voyager 1 quickly overtook it on a faster trajectory, and arrived at Jupiter 4 months before its sister craft. Voyager 1 took this photo of Jupiter ...
The tech news channels were recently abuzz with stories about strange signals coming back from Voyager 1. While the usual ... a probe would be able to reach Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune ...
Voyager 1 discovered a thin ring around Jupiter and several of Saturn’s moons, and Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune. Each spacecraft still has three instruments apiec ...
Thirty-five years ago, on February 14, 1990, the Voyager 1 probe took its last series of photographs. The mission has completed its goal of traveling across the Solar System to see Jupiter and Saturn.
Nasa plans to shut down another instrument on Voyager 2 to conserve power, following a similar action on Voyager 1. This step aims to extend the life of the nearly 47-year-old spacecraft, now in ...