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  2. Timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their moons

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    The timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their natural satellites charts the progress of the discovery of new bodies over history. Each object is listed in chronological order of its discovery (multiple dates occur when the moments of imaging, observation, and publication differ), identified through its various designations (including temporary and permanent schemes), and the ...

  3. Saturn - Wikipedia

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    Saturn has been known since prehistoric times, [134] and in early recorded history it was a major character in various mythologies. Babylonian astronomers systematically observed and recorded the movements of Saturn. [135] In ancient Greek, the planet was known as Φαίνων Phainon, [136] and in Roman times it was known as the "star of ...

  4. Discovery and exploration of the Solar System - Wikipedia

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    The first successful flyby of Mars was made by Mariner 4 in 1965. Mariner 10 first passed Mercury in 1974. The first probe to explore the outer planets was Pioneer 10, which flew by Jupiter in 1973. Pioneer 11 was the first to visit Saturn, in 1979.

  5. Timeline of Solar System astronomy - Wikipedia

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    1980 – Voyager 1 flies by Saturn and takes the first images of Titan. [203] However, its atmosphere is opaque to visible light, so its surface remains obscured. 1982 – Venera 13 lands on Venus, sends the first photographs in color of its surface, and records atmospheric wind noises, the first sounds heard from another planet. [204]

  6. 20 new moons were discovered around Saturn - AOL

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    The new discovery increases the moons orbiting the "jewel of our solar system" to 82, surpassing Jupiter

  7. Jupiter, Saturn merging in night sky, closest in centuries - AOL

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    Jupiter and Saturn will merge in the night sky Monday, appearing closer to one another than they have since Galileo’s time in the 17th century. Astronomers say so-called conjunctions between the ...

  8. Apparent retrograde motion - Wikipedia

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    Galileo's drawings show that he first observed Neptune on December 28, 1612, and again on January 27, 1613. On both occasions, Galileo mistook Neptune for a fixed star when it appeared very close—in conjunction—to Jupiter in the night sky, hence, he is not credited with Neptune's discovery. During the period of his first observation in ...

  9. Saturn's rings will disappear from view of ground-based ... - AOL

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    If observed from the vantage point of space, the rings would still be all accounted for. A view of Saturn's rings from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured on June 20, 2019.