Voyager 2 took this shot almost precisely 12 years after it launched on a Titan-Centaur rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Having visited Jupiter in 1979, Saturn in 1981 and Uranus in 1985 ...
Related: Uranus and Neptune aren't made of what we thought, new study hints Voyager 2 took this shot almost precisely 12 years after it launched on a Titan-Centaur rocket from Cape Canaveral ...
Related: Uranus and Neptune aren't made of what we thought, new study hints Voyager 2 took this shot almost precisely 12 years after it launched on a Titan-Centaur rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Scientists have uncovered the secret ingredient fueling supercharged storms on Uranus and Neptune: methane.
Professor Irwin said, "Although the familiar Voyager 2 images of Uranus were published in a form closer to 'true' color, those of Neptune were, in fact, stretched and enhanced, and therefore made ...
It launched second, but reached its target first. On September 5, 1977, the Voyager 1 spacecraft blasted off from Cape ...
By making use of the gravity of one planet to sling itself to the next planet, Voyager 2 not only visited its initial targets of Jupiter and Saturn, but also made its way to Uranus and Neptune as ...
Voyager 1 was responsible for one of the most iconic space photos in the history of the space program. In 1990, while still ...
Voyager 2 launched a few weeks earlier, on August 20, 1977. The Voyager mission took advantage of a rare geometric arrangement of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in the late 1970s and the ...
Image from Alexander Kluge's short film, “The Galactic Year” (Alexander Kluge Archive, Cornell University) Johann Sebastian ...
The DSN's array of antennas, including the renowned 70-meter antenna, plays a pivotal role in space exploration by enabling communication with distant spacecraft. Its arraying technology and various ...