On July 9, 1979, Voyager 2 made its closest approach to the largest planet in our solar system. Now in interstellar space, Voyager 2 altered some of our ideas about the Jovian system. A.S.Ganesh ...

Launched in September 1977, NASA's Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 embarked on a pioneering odyssey, equipped not just with scientific instruments but also with a crucial tool— sophisticated cameras ...

The Voyager probe's movie of Jupiter made history, revealing the planet like never before. See how those images compare to Jupiter pictures from NASA's Juno mission today.

Once a realm of imagination and stargazing, the Solar System has now been revealed in stunning clarity through decades of space exploration. This video takes you on a breathtaking journey, showing ...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot by Voyager 2 NASA/JPL/Björn Jónsson/Seán Doran/ Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) An enhanced image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, as seen by NASA's Voyager 2 probe on July 7, 1979.

Voyager 2 provided the images used to make this false-color rendition of Callisto, a satellite of Jupiter, on July 7, 1979. Callisto is one of the most heavily cratered of Jupiter's moons, and ...

On July 9, 1979, Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Jupiter and snapped this photo of the largest planet in our solar system with its moon Io orbiting beside it.

Voyager 2 passed much closer to Europa on July 9, and its images revealed frozen plains crisscrossed by dark streaks, giving it the look of a cracked egg. Europa’s surface is the smoothest in ...

And what a scenic ride it was. Together, Voyagers 1 and 2 returned photos of swirling storms on Jupiter, rows of ringlets around Saturn, the bluish haze of Uranus, and the Great Dark Spot on Neptune.

Voyager 1 took this photo of Jupiter and two of its satellites (Io, left, and Europa) on Feb. 13, 1979. Io is about 220,000 miles above Jupiter's Great Red Spot; Europa is about 375,000 miles ...

During its travels through the solar system, Voyager 1 and its sister satellite Voyager 2, made several groundbreaking discoveries. Images taken of Jupiter by the Voyager probes were the first to ...