The spacecraft, located more than 24 billion kilometres away, was feared lost to the cosmic ocean after decades of travel. But, as Andrew Griffins writes, thanks to a daring feat of human ingenuity ...
“Io is one of the most intriguing objects in the whole solar system,” said study coauthor ... volcanic activity wasn’t detected until Voyager 1 flew by Jupiter and its moons in 1979 ...
“Io is one of the most intriguing objects in the whole solar system,” said study coauthor ... as she studied an image of Io captured by Voyager 1. The revelation sparked a decades-long mystery ...
such as Jupiter’s moon Europa and planets beyond our solar system. Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, known as the father of modern astronomy, discovered Io on January 8, 1610. But the moon’s wild ...
After completing their primary mission in 1989, the probes continued their journey, venturing into the far reaches of the solar system and beyond. Now more than 10 billion miles away, Voyager 1 ...
For two decades now, the iconic twin Voyager spacecraft have been quietly overturning everything we thought we knew about the ...
Voyager 1 and 2 are still hurtling through interstellar space well beyond our solar system after over 47 years and hundreds ...