They were also not the first missions to carry a message intended for extraterrestrial beings should they reach interstellar ...

While Voyager 1 focused on Jupiter and Saturn, Voyager 2 visited both those planets and also ventured to Uranus and Neptune. Voyager 2's mission to those last two planets would be humanity's only ...

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Both Voyagers launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida in 1977 — with Voyager 2 departing a month earlier than 1 — and were designed to last five years to study Jupiter and Saturn.

Voyager 2 is 12.4 billion miles from Earth ... to explore planets in the outer solar system − particularly Jupiter and Saturn. Voyager 1, which NASA said was not impeded by the glitch, in ...

Voyager 2 measured winds blowing at Saturn's equator at a whopping 1,100 mph (1,770 km/h). Voyager 2 wasn't the first probe to image Saturn. That distinction goes to Pioneer 11, ...

Voyager 2 and its twin Voyager 1 are the only spacecraft ever to operate outside the heliosphere, ... which occurs about every 176 years, to explore Jupiter and Saturn.

Voyager 1's plasma detector failed after it passed Saturn, so Voyager 2 provided the first glimpse of what happens to the solar wind's energy as it slams into interstellar space. The solar wind ...

NASA launched two 12-inch gold-plated copper disks filled with the sounds of children's laughter, heartbeats, and bird calls.

On Aug. 20, 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 2 spacecraft on a mission to explore the outer planets. Despite its name, this was the first of two Voyager missions NASA launched that year. Thanks to ...

Voyager 2 launched in August of 1977, about two weeks before its twin Voyager 1, which swung past Jupiter and Saturn, followed by Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Voyager 2 took a different path ...

While Voyager 1 ended its planetary mission after Saturn, Voyager 2 completed a 12-year journey to Neptune. But they didn't stop there! Voyager 1 left the solar system and entered interstellar ...