However, JPL scientists and engineers were confident enough in Voyager 2 to send the aging probe on to Uranus and Neptune. At Uranus, the spacecraft photographed a world oddly tipped on its side, perhaps the result of a colossal primordial collision. Ten new moons were discovered in the ...
Jupiter's Great Red Spot, which extends from the equator to the southern polar latitudes, as seen by the space probe Voyager 2 in 1979. MPI/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Although the lifetime mission cost for Voyager exceeded $750 million, by 1989 the spacecrafts had returned enough scientifi...
But the probe made it safely to space and raced past its twin after launch, getting beyond the mainasteroid beltbetweenMarsand Jupiter before Voyager 2 did. Voyager 1's first pictures ofJupiterbeamed back to Earth in April 1978, when the probe was 165 million miles (266 million kilometers)...
The Voyager 1 probe, which launched 40 years ago today (Sept. 5), is humankind's most distant physical emissary, at almost 13 billion miles (21 billion kilometers) from Earth. Voyager 1 and its sister-spacecraft, Voyager 2, which launched two weeks earlier in 1977, gave scientists their...
The Voyager probes launched to study the planets, but they discovered the wonder of the solar system's moons.
The space probe, Voyager I, launched in 1977, had sent back spectacular images of Jupiter and Saturn and then soared out of the Solar System on a one-way mission to the stars. 1977年发射的“旅行者一号”太空探测器发回了木星和土星的壮观图像,然后飞出太阳系,执行前往恒星的单程任务。
systemand gone where no man has gone before. Well, it did that ages ago, but then came Star Trek – The Motion picture, and when I started this A to Z I wondered: what will become of our little space probe, designed just to fly past Jupiter & Saturn and send back amazing pictures...
2. The solution was to get a message toVoyagerI to instruct it to use spares to change the failing parts. 解决办法是给旅行者1号发信息,指示它使用备件更换故障部件。 youdao 3. The space probe,VoyagerI, launched in 1977, had sent back spectacular images of Jupiter and Saturn and then soared...
Was It a Mistake to Broadcast Earth Coordinates on the Voyager Spacecraft? According to the science fiction novel Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard, the answer is yes. “Man apparently sent out some kind of probe that gave full directions to the place, had pictures of man on it and ev...
The concept of the Pale Blue Dot-type image has continued to resonate over the years. Remarking that pretty much every mission since has snapped an image of home if possible, Porco commented: "It's now de rigueur to take a picture of Earth if you have a spacecraft out there!" ...