40 Years Ago: Voyager 1 Explores Saturn - NASA
WEBOn Nov. 12, about 18 hours before making its closest encounter with Saturn, Voyager 1 turned its attention to one of the high-priority science targets of the encounter, Titan, passing within 4,034 miles of the planet’s largest moon.
Voyager 1 - Wikipedia
WEBVoyager 1 encountered Saturn in November 1980, with the closest approach on November 12, 1980, when the space probe came within 124,000 kilometres (77,000 mi) of Saturn's cloud-tops. The space probe's cameras detected complex structures in the rings of Saturn , and its remote sensing instruments studied the atmospheres of Saturn and its giant ...
Voyager 1 - NASA Science
WEBAt Saturn, Voyager 1 found five new moons and a new ring called the G-ring. Voyager 1 was the first spacecraft to cross the heliosphere, the boundary where the influences from outside our solar system are stronger than those from our Sun.
Planetary Voyage - NASA Science
WEBVoyager 1, launched September 5, 1977, visited Jupiter in 1979 and Saturn in 1980. It is now leaving the solar system, rising above the ecliptic plane at an angle of about 35 degrees, at a rate of about 520 million kilometers a year.
Voyager at Saturn - NASA Science
WEBApr 10, 2024 · Voyager at Saturn. The Voyager 1 and 2 Saturn encounters occurred nine months apart, in November 1980 and August 1981. Voyager 2 completed its encounter with Uranus in January 1986 and with Neptune in August 1989. Both are …
Voyager 1 Image of Saturn - NASA
WEBVoyager 1 looked back at Saturn on Nov. 16, 1980, four days after the spacecraft flew past the planet, to observe the appearance of Saturn and its rings from this unique perspective.
Voyager program - Wikipedia
WEBThe Voyager program is an American scientific program that employs two interstellar probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. They were launched in 1977 to take advantage of a favorable alignment of the two gas giants Jupiter and Saturn and the ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, to fly near them while collecting data for transmission back to Earth.
45 Years Ago: Voyager 1 Begins its Epic Journey to the Outer ... - NASA
WEBSep 7, 2022 · Voyager 1 began its long-range observations of Saturn on Aug. 22, 1980, passed within 114,500 miles of the planet’s center on Nov. 12, and concluded its studies on Dec. 14. Because of its interest to scientists, mission planners chose the spacecraft’s trajectory to make a close flyby of Saturn’s largest moon Titan – the only planetary ...
Voyager 1 - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
WEBSep 5, 1977 · Voyager 1 reached interstellar space in August 2012 and is the most distant human-made object in existence. Launched just shortly after its twin spacecraft, Voyager 2, in 1977, Voyager 1 explored the Jovian and Saturnian systems discovering new moons, active volcanoes and a wealth of data about the outer solar system.
PDS IMG: Beta - Voyager - PDS Imaging Node
WEBVoyager. Nearly three decades ago, on November 12, 1980 at 3:56 PM PST, the Voyager 1 spacecraft made its closest approach to Saturn in mankind's first detailed reconnaissance of that giant planet. One hour and 25 minutes later, the signal from that moment arrived at Earth, while the world waited in awe as picture after picture unfolded on ...