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A recently resurfaced NASA image of Saturn’s moon Iapetus is stirring renewed interest across the internet, showing an ...
A photo of a mysterious feature on Saturn’s moon that has baffled scientists is now going viral. The planet is some 793 ...
NASA mission controllers raced against time to find a solution before a crucial ground-based radio used for communicating ...
NASA engineers have brought a set of obsolete thrusters back from the dead on the Voyager 1 probe, just before losing their ...
From solar probes to deep space missions, these record-breaking human-made objects reached speeds that make bullets and jets look slow by comparison.
The images were taken around 04:48 GMT on Feb. 14, 1990, only 34 minutes before Voyager 1’s cameras were permanently powered off — a move made to preserve the space probe’s energy for its journey ...
Voyager 1 – and its sibling ... Dot image that shows the Earth being less than a pixel in size. Those images – taken on Valentine’s Day – were the last images taken by the Voyager ...
For the record, organizers ultimately settled on 115 images (plus one used ... The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken Feb. 14, 1990, by NASA’s Voyager 1 at a distance of 3.7 billion ...
This takes a few days. A photograph of Jupiter taken by Voyager 1 (Oxford Science Archive/Print Collector/Getty Images) Advert So, when they sent out their command and finally was able to get a ...
One of the first and biggest surprises from Voyager 1 was Jupiter’s moon Io. In the early images, it resembled a giant pizza and showed not a trace of the expected craters. Meanwhile, attempts to ...
Why it's so special: Only one spacecraft has ever visited the eighth and most distant planet from the sun. On Aug. 25, 1989, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft took the first-ever close-up images of Neptune.