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 ...

When Voyager 1 launched in 1977 ... The 1980s flybys yielded new insights about the so-called great red spot on Jupiter, the rings around Saturn and the many moons of each planet.

Along with discovering new moons and rings on Saturn and Jupiter, Voyager 1 has also been slowly going mad and dying — but NASA is not letting it go down without a fight. The spacecraft's ...

Voyager 1 defied the odds yet again—after ... to only conduct a five-year mission to observe the moons and rings of Saturn and Jupiter, after which engineers assumed the pair would eventually ...

After beaming back dazzling postcard views of Jupiter’s giant red spot and Saturn’s shimmering rings, Voyager 2 hopscotched to Uranus and Neptune. Meanwhile, Voyager 1 used Saturn as a ...

NASA has confirmed that after a pause in communications with Voyager 1 in late October, the spacecraft has regained its voice and resumed regular operations. Voyager unexpectedly turned off its ...

Voyager 1 – and its sibling ... open image in gallery An artist’s impression of Voyager I passing the rings of Saturn on its journey to the outer reaches of the solar system (Getty) It ...

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

On September 5, 1977, the Voyager 1 spacecraft blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on its way to planet Jupiter and points beyond. Voyager 2 launched a few weeks earlier, on August 20 ...

Voyager 1 and 2 were nuclear powered robotic ... 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 ...

After many months of extremely long-distance repairs, NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe is fully operational ... was to study the outer planets of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, but they ...

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 ...