voyager spacecraft photo

. Spacecraft: Voyager 2 Instrument: Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle Product Size: 1004 samples x 1004 lines Produced By: U.S. Geological Survey Addition Date: 1998-06-04 Primary Data Set: Voyager EDRs Full-Res TIFF: PIA00347.tif (1.99 MB) Full-Res JPEG: PIA00347.jpg (95.52 kB). The Voyager spacecraft caught several erupting when they passed the energetic moon in 1979. In the above picture, several of Io's volcanoes are visible and one is seen actually erupting. Debris from this explosive event can be seen on the upper left of the photo, just beyond Io's edge. Io 's volcanism is thought to be caused by the large tidal ... . The twin spacecraft Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched by NASA in separate months in the summer of 1977 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. As originally designed, the Voyagers were to conduct closeup studies of Jupiter and Saturn, Saturn's rings, and the larger moons of the two planets. To accomplish their two-planet mission, the spacecraft were ... . This picture of the planet Jupiter was taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft as it passed the planet in 1979. Jupiter, a gas giant planet with no solid surface, is the largest planet in the solar system and is made mostly of the hydrogen and helium. Clearly visible in the photo is the Great Red Spot, a giant, hurricane-like storm system that rotates ... . Spacecraft "Voyager" 204403 75 Manned Mars Mission 306305 75 Spacecraft "Pioneer" 306403 75 Manned Mars Mission 507501 75 Manned Mars Mission 507502 75. A photo of Uranus taken by Voyager 2. ... NASA Voyager website Voyager Spacecraft Lifetime Voyager 2 Mission Profile by NASA's Solar System Exploration Voyager 2 (NSSDC Master Catalog) Spacecraft Escaping the Solar ... . Voyager - Spacecraft - Golden Record - Scenes From Earth ... http://gigazine.net/index.php?/news/comments/20070511_voyager_program_photo ... . Detailed information on NASA missions to the outer planets and the first spacecraft to reach Uranus and Neptune.. Signals from Voyager 1 take 13 hours to reach Earth, traveling at the speed of light. From NASA: Although launched 16 days after Voyager 2, Voyager 1 arrived at Jupiter March 1979, four months earlier than Voyager 2. Both spacecraft were then directed to Saturn with arrival times in November 1980 (Voyager 1) and August 1981 (Voyager 2). Photo:. NSSDC Photo Gallery: Voyager Index - An index of pages in the NSSDC Photo Gallery which contain images produced by the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft. Ulysses Spacecraft Meets A Comet Catching a comet by the tail Some Coronal Mass Ejections are Caused by Shock Waves From ... Lunakhod 1 launch and Voyager 1 Saturn flyby anniversaries: Relevant URLs: ... Spectacular photo catches hungry quasar in the act Space Tourism: The Road Ahead Early results from the Sloan ... . NSSDC Photo Gallery: Spacecraft - A collection of images of spacecraft and satellites ... Image of Voyager without the magnetometer boom deployed. Caption P-19727Bc 45K Image of Voyager with the magnetometer boom deployed. Caption P-24653 80K. 1977 Mariner Jupiter/Saturn 1977 is renamed Voyager Aug. 20 Voyager 2 launched from Kennedy Space Flight Center Sept. 5 Voyager 1 launched from Kennedy Space Flight Center Voyager 1 returns first spacecraft photo of Earth and Moon 1979 Mar. 5 Voyager 1 makes its closest approach to Jupiter. An illustration of solar system with trajectory of Voyager spacecraft. Photo: NASA/JPL . Voyager 1 sends the first spacecraft photo of Earth and the Moon 1979 Mar. 5 Voyager 1 flies by Jupiter in its closest approach to that planet July 9 Voyager 2 makes its closest fly-by of Jupiter 1980 Nov. 12 Voyager 1 flies by the planet Saturn With no more planet fly-bys in its plan, Voyager 1 begins its trip out of the Solar System