The solar wind plasma goes from moving at about 400 kilometers per second (900,000 miles per hour) to being diverted and ...

On July 9, 1979, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter. It came within 354,000 miles (570,000 kilometers) of the planet's cloud tops. Voyager 2 was one of two space ...

Over the next few hours, Voyager 2 flew within 50,600 miles (81,433 kilometers) of Uranus’ cloud tops, collecting data that revealed two new rings, 11 new moons and temperatures below minus 353 ...

But Voyager 2 swooped by Jupiter on a Grand Tour of the outer solar system. It crossed Jupiter’s bow shock on July 3, 1979, and entered the magnetosheath on July 5.

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.

There are jets in Jupiter’s magnetosheath, according to Voyager 2 mission data from 1979. The 45-year-old information is now revealing the dynamics of the plasma stream.

Nor was Voyager 2 the first of the two Voyager probes to photograph the ringed planet. Its twin, Voyager 1, reached Saturn in November 1980, while Voyager 2 visited nine months later, making its ...

Voyager 2 phones home and says everything is cool ... Pioneer 10 and 11 provided some better views of Jupiter and Saturn, but still, very little was known about the planets or their moons.

Zooming in on Jupiter’s equatorial clouds, three bright features (colored boxes) appear in this snippet from a July 2022 JWST image. Tracking those features over time let researchers clock the ...