Voyager 1 was responsible for one of the most iconic space photos in the history of the space program. In 1990, while still ...

It launched second, but reached its target first. On September 5, 1977, the Voyager 1 spacecraft blasted off from Cape ...

This composite image shows the Saturn Lyman-alpha bulge, an emission from hydrogen which is a persistent and unexpected excess detected by three distinct NASA missions, namely Voyager 1 ...

This view of the dark Cassini Division, which separates Saturn’s outer A-ring from the inner B-ring, was taken on August 23, 1981, when Voyager 2 was about 1.7 million miles from the planet.

It then set out on its 29-month journey to Saturn, using Jupiter for a gravity assist. As Voyager 1 had already had its successful encounter with Saturn, Voyager 2 was put to the task of studying ...

Comparison of the Cassini field model with that based on the Pioneer 11 and Voyager 1 and 2 measurements taken roughly 30 years earlier suggests that the secular variation of Saturn’s field is at ...

On Nov. 12, 1980, Voyager 1 flew by Saturn, recording data on the planet and its many moons. It found that one of the moons, Titan, had a thick atmosphere mostly composed of nitrogen, like Earth's ...

Feb. 7, 2024 ... Rings July 1, 2023 — Saturn's iconic rings seem to glow eerily in this incredible infrared picture, which also unveils unexpected features in Saturn's atmosphere.

Saturn comes second to Jupiter in many respects—in size, age, prominence of stripes—but in terms of scientific intrigue, it ...

The fastest man-made satellite to ever reach Saturn was Voyager 1. It took three years and two ... nitrogen-rich atmosphere. See the original image from NASA. What little portion of the atmosphere ...

On September 5, 1977, the Voyager 1 spacecraft blasted off ... In addition Voyager took readings on Jupiter’s atmosphere and magnetic field. Then it was on to Saturn. Observations of that ...