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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.
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. You may remember Voyager 2.
Jupiter sets record after 12 new moons discovered Jupiter's dazzling auroras are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth, new images from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal.
The breathtaking images, taken on Christmas in 2023, showcase the glowing auras decades after they were first detected when a Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
During Voyager 2’s Uranus encounter in 1986, the three largest DSN antennas were 64-meters (210 feet) wide. To assist with the Neptune encounter, the DSN expanded the dishes to 70 meters (230 feet).
Voyager 2 also flew past Jupiter for a gravity assist in 1979, then past Saturn in 1980, but its path also carried it past the Solar System’s two most distant worlds, “ice giants” Uranus and ...
Voyager 2 visited Uranus in 1986 Much of our understanding of Uranus comes from Voyager 2's flyby, which to date remains the only time a spacecraft has visited the planet.
When Voyager 1 launched in 1977, scientists hoped it could do what it was built to do and take up-close images of Jupiter and Saturn. It did that — and much more.