On January 6, 1979, Voyager 1 was 36 million miles (58 million kilometers) from Jupiter and two months from its closest approach. Views of the planet’s cloudy, banded disk already exceeded the ...

Voyager 1 and its twin spacecraft, Voyager 2, both left Earth in 1977 on the trail of an unusual planetary alignment that happens every 175 years, according to NASA.The gas giant planets Jupiter ...

The NASA Voyager craft have traveled through space, beyond the planets, for decades. Scientist Alan Cummings saw some of the first images returned to Earth.

The results started to pour in during 1979, when first Voyager 1, then Voyager 2, flew past Jupiter. They spotted sulphur volcanoes belching from Jupiter's moon Io, as it was flexed by the giant ...

Jupiter, its Great Red Spot and three of its four largest satellites are visible in this photo taken February 5, 1979, by Voyager 1. JPL-Caltech/NASA What Voyager saw — ...

Voyager 2 entered Jupiter's orbit as Voyager 1 was on its way out and took an additional 14,000 photos before completing its Jupiter encounter in August 1979. That was 45 years ago.

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 is one half of the Voyager mission. It has a twin spacecraft, Voyager 2. Launched in 1977, they were primarily built for a four-year trip to Jupiter and Saturn , expanding on earlier ...

NASA’s 46-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a computer glitch that prevents it from returning science data to Earth from the solar system’s outer reaches.

Voyager 2 snapped this image of Jupiter during the spacecraft's 1979 flyby. (Image credit: NASA) Voyager 2's first distant images of Jupiter flowed back on April 24, 1979, and the probe continued ...

The Voyager program itself, meanwhile, got started because the late 1970s saw Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune move into a rare planetary alignment that could allow two spacecraft to visit the ...