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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is making history again, this time one-upping the legendary Voyager 1. New Horizons is the probe that flew by Pluto on July 14, 2015, and beamed back those amazing ...
Voyager 1, the furthest human-made object from Earth is still sending us messages from so far away, ... The last pictures taken were on February 14, 1990, at a distance of 4 billion miles ...
This Voyager 2 photograph of Titan, taken Aug. 23, 1981 from a range of 2.3 million kilometers (1.4 million miles), shows some detail in the cloud systems on this Saturnian moon.
It was 35 years ago, on Nov. 12, 1980, that NASA’s Voyager 1 got as close to Saturn as it would in the course of its years-long mission. In the process, the probe—which had been launched about ...
The image was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 probe, which launched in 1977 and entered interstellar space in 2012. NASA has released an updated version of the image that shows Earth as a bluer, clearer ...
NASA’s Voyager 1 made its closest approach to Jupiter on March 5, 1979, coming within 172,000 miles of the planet’s surface. It had begun photographing Jupiter in January of that year, but most of its ...
After 30 years of the Earth’s image being taken by Voyager 1, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has updated the image ‘Pale Blue Dot’ and re-released it. The image was ...
When the probe Voyager 1 was 3.75 billion miles from Earth, on Valentine's Day 1990, it turned its camera toward home and took a photo, called the Pale Blue Dot.
V oyager 1 – and its sibling, Voyager 2 – were always meant to be a testament to humanity’s ingenuity. When they left Earth in the summer of 1977, they did so carrying a record that was ...
When Voyager 1 launched in 1977, scientists hoped it could do what it was built to do and take up-close images of Jupiter and Saturn. It did that -- and much more.
"NASA's Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft actually isn't even in the solar system anymore," I announced. "Nope, it's more than 15 billion miles (24 billion km) away from us — and it's getting ...