Because it's bigger, Jupiter ought to have larger ... "We didn't know these ephemeral rings existed until the Voyager spacecraft went past because we couldn't see them," Kane said.

Indeed, Jupiter's rings are so small that scientists did not even discover them until 1979, when the space probe Voyager passed by the gas giant. There are three faint rings, all of them made of ...

Jupiter's three faint rings came as a surprise when NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft discovered them around the planet's equator in 1979. Much more tenuous than Saturn's chunky, colorful rings ...

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 ...

In 1979, NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft zipped ... the data revealed that giant Jupiter sports thin, dusty rings. Planet Jupiter, explained And when NASA's Juno spacecraft began orbiting ...

NASA's Voyager 1, the furthest spacecraft from Earth, simply refuses to die. In a press release, the space agency revealed that the little probe that could has once again sputtered back to life thanks ...

Well, every 13-15 years, Saturn, the second largest planet in the solar system behind Jupiter ... Saturn's rings regularly disappear from our view, and when we'll see them again. Uranus: Voyager ...

NEWSREADER: Thousands more pictures are expected as the voyager flies by Jupiter. The Voyagers went on to explore Saturn's rings and collect data about the planet's largest moon Titan, before the ...

Over the Rings After Jupiter came an extended period of tense preparation for the Voyager team. In one sense, not much was happening; the probes were in free flight, slowly making their way across the ...

Since Voyager 1 blasted off in 1977, it has skirted past the kaleidoscopic clouds of Jupiter and the icy rings of Saturn. The spacecraft is now 124 times farther from the Sun than we are ...

Voyager 2’s flyby of the sideways-rotating Uranus revealed previously unknown rings and moons around the ... planets in our solar system, such as Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune.