... And because Friday marks the 23rd anniversary of the Voyager 2 spacecraftт??s encounter with Neptune and Saturday is that probeт??s 31st anniversary of its Saturn flyby, Bakich has chosen т??How Voyager Changed the Solar Systemт?? as his talk. ...
... called the regrettable decision not to send either Voyager spacecraft past Pluto ... When Voyager swooped past Neptune later that summer, the planet's large and icy moon ...
... In the early 1980s, images from NASAт??s Voyager spacecraft showed two to three dark bands on Saturn, and scientists theorized ... This is a significantly larger area than suggested by the Voyager images. ...
... Until Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in January 1986, the rings were only known from the way they temporarily blocked the light of ... of micron-sized dust have changed significantly since the Voyager 2 spacecraft photographed the Uranus system 21 years ago ...
... As gas giants voyage inward, it is thought that they sometimes kick smaller rocky planets out of the way and with them any ... Lucky for us, our Jupiter did not voyage toward the Sun, and Earth was left in peace. ...
... up view of Phoebe came 23 years ago, in 1981, when the Voyager 2 spacecraft passed 1,000 times farther from the moon than did ... Based on Voyager data, scientists suspect that Phoebe may be a very primitive object. ...