The little we understood about the five moons of Uranus was primarily derived from NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft ... a series of detailed images from Jupiter, showing all of the minute details.

What can a sample return mission from Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io, teach scientists about planetary and satellite (moon) ...

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are both exploring uncharted territory in interstellar space. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, sent a command for Voyager 1 to power ...

Voyager 2 launched first; three weeks later Voyager 1 followed suit and zipped ahead. Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter in 1979 and past Saturn and its largest moon, Titan, in 1980. Voyager 2 followed ...

They were the third and fourth spacecraft to visit Jupiter and Saturn, and Voyager 2 was the first to visit Uranus and Neptune – providing a treasure trove of information that exceeded anything ...

In April of 1978, barely a year before its scheduled encounter with Jupiter, the primary S-band receiver on Voyager 2 was shut down by fault-protection algorithms on the spacecraft that failed to ...

and on Wednesday it confirmed an instrument on Voyager 2 that measures charged particles and cosmic rays will shut off later this month. Voyager project manager Suzanne Dodd at the Nasa Jet ...

Voyager 1 is known for discovering a thin ring around Jupiter and several of Saturn's moons, while Voyager 2 holds the distinction of being the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune.

Jupiter’s moon Io ... Io’s volcanism — probably present over the moon’s entire 4.6-billion-year existence — was discovered when the Voyager spacecraft flew by in 1979.

Voyager 2 was launched on August 20, 1977, on a trajectory toward the solar system’s gas giants, Jupiter and Saturn, and explored the icy giants Uranus and Neptune. Voyager 1 is more than 15 ...