... A large, modern telescope will reveal Saturn banded in pale yellow and gray; photos from the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft that flew by Saturn in the early 1980s showed even more detail in the cloud tops of its upper atmosphere. ...
... Particolare di Giove ripreso da 9,2 milioni di Km dalla sonda spaziale Voyager ... dello scatto :2 Aprile 1979 -Fotografo :Sonda spaziale Voyager -Personaggio : -Tipo ...
... The Saturn flybys of the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft in the early 1980s provided a basic description of the aurora and mapped for the first time planet’s enormous magnetic field that guides energetic electrons into the atmosphere near the north and south ...
... Diapositiva N:10 -Titolo/soggetto :Gli anelli di Saturno osservati dal Voyager ad una distanza di 2,5 milioni di Km ... In questa immagine si sono osservati 2 nuovi satelliti scoperti dal Voyager. ...
... we plug that into the equation 1/d^2 = 1/2^2 = 1/4 = 25% The spacecraft is getting ... Mars is at a distance of 1.5 AUs from the Sun. 1/d^2 = 1/1.5^2 = 1/2.25 = 44%. ... Jupiter is at 5.2 AUs so 1/d^2 = 1/5.2^2 = 1/27 = 3.7%. ...
... fact, the mass of Jupiter is almost 2.5 times that of all the other planets combined ... the top of the clouds at the equator is 2.4 times as great as gravity's pull at the ...
... area they discovered is a surface feature 2,500 miles across, about the size of the ... to cameras aboard the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft that flew by the Saturn system ...
... Before the Voyager encounters, astronomers suspected that Titan might have an ... Expecting an unusual world, Voyager 1 was programmed to take numerous close up views ... The Voyager spacecraft were not able to penetrate the thick layers of clouds but ...