Its twin spacecraft, Voyager 1, only made it as far as Saturn before veering out of ... During the encounter, Voyager 2 examined the rings around Uranus and discovered 10 of its 27 known moons.

Once a year, the Large Hadron Collider smashes lead ions. But how do scientists get a heavy metal into a particle accelerator ...

Circle 117 on Reader Service Card Furuno Furuno introduced the Voyager concept ... with the introduction of Nucleus 2 bridge equip- Kvaerner Kvaerner Ships Equipment has been contracted to ...

Voyager recorded thousands of hits in these regions, as did Cassini crossing Saturn’s ring plane, fortunately from particles ... During Galileo’s Earth-2 flyby en route to Jupiter, JPL succeeded in ...

Saturn is perhaps the best-known example, swathed by eight main rings made of thousands of smaller ringlets, but the other three outer planets also possess rings, the Voyager space missions revealed.

On this date, Jan. 26, 1981, NASA Voyager 1 probe discovers Saturn’s moon, Epimetheus. Saturn would be the last planet Voyager 1 would visit before beginning its ongoing journey out of the solar ...

Micrometeorites regularly strike Saturn's rings at a speed of 20 km/s (12.4 miles/s) and darken them. (2) During the impact, the material is transformed into plasma and heated to temperatures ...

Saturn’s iconic rings are vanishing this year and won’t be visible again until 2028. Saturn is famed for its icy rings, but an astrophysicist warns they will disappear from Earth’s view next ...

SATURN'S iconic rings are set to disappear in weeks, and won't come back into full view until 2032 The vanishing act is all down to an optical illusion due to Saturn's tilt, which will turn the ...