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NASA map showing trajectories of the Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Voyager 1, and Voyager 2 spacecraft. In 1992, Voyager 2 observed the nova V1974 Cygni in the far-ultraviolet, first of its kind. The further increase in the brightness at those wavelengths helped in the more detailed study of the nova.
The Voyager program is an American scientific program that employs two interstellar probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. They were launched in 1977 to take advantage of a favorable planetary alignment to explore the two gas giants Jupiter and Saturn and potentially also the ice giants, Uranus and Neptune - to fly near them while collecting data for ...
Map of Europa, by the United States Geological Survey. Europa is the smoothest known object in the Solar System, lacking large-scale features such as mountains and craters. [51] The prominent markings crisscrossing Europa appear to be mainly albedo features that emphasize low topography. There are few craters on Europa, because its surface is ...
Voyager 2: Uranus: Success: Voyager 2 sent back images of Uranus and its system 1987 Japan: Ginga: Earth: Success: Launch of the Ginga X-ray satellite 1988 Soviet Union: Phobos 1: Mars: Failure: Phobos 1 orbiter and lander Soviet Union: Phobos 2: Mars: Failure: Phobos 2 flyby and lander Israel: Ofeq 1: Earth: Success
Voyager 2 passed Io on July 9, 1979 at a distance of 1,130,000 km (702,000 mi), approaching Jupiter between the orbits of Europa and Ganymede. [58] Though it did not approach nearly as close to Io as Voyager 1 , comparisons between images taken by the two spacecraft showed several surface changes that had occurred in the four months between the ...
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Puck—the largest inner moon of Uranus—was discovered from the images taken by Voyager 2 on 30 December 1985. It was given the temporary designation S/1985 U 1. [11]The moon was later named after the character Puck who appears in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, a little sprite who travels around the globe at night with the fairies.
Voyager Terra is a region on the dwarf planet Pluto, north of Viking Terra and Tombaugh Regio and west of Pioneer Terra, which was discovered in July 2015 by the New Horizons spacecraft. It is named for the Voyager program and Voyager 2 , the first spacecraft to explore Uranus and Neptune and to cross into interstellar space .