Voyager 1

8 Mar
2021
March 8, 2021

First Pictures: Voyager 1 Images Io’s Volcanic Plumes – March 8, 1979

Growing up in the 1970s, I watched the progress of every NASA mission to the planets with great enthusiasm. Probably the one mission I waited for […]
Lunar & Planetary Missions, Remote Sensing Instruments, Spaceflight
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18 Sep
2020
September 18, 2020

First Pictures: Voyager 1 Portrait of the Earth & Moon – September 18, 1977

For space enthusiasts of a certain age like myself, the 1970s were a golden age of discovery with missions encountering all five planets known to ancient […]
Lunar & Planetary Missions, Remote Sensing Instruments, Spaceflight
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12 Nov
2015
November 12, 2015

Voyager 1: The First Close Encounter with Titan

The largest of Saturn’s diverse family of moons, Titan is also arguably one of the more interesting worlds in our Solar System with a thick haze-filled […]
Lunar & Planetary Missions, Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing History, Spaceflight
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