Did Voyager 1 take pictures of Saturn?

That’s a question a future dedicated mission to the small moon might answer. Voyager 1 took this image of Saturn as it departed, looking back from its vantage point of 3.3 million miles (5.3 million km) four days after closest approach. Spokes can be seen as bright patches in the rings from this distance.

How many pictures did Voyager take from Saturn?

But Voyager 1 turned around to take one last look at home before closing its eyes. And not just its home planet — its home system. The probe took a “family portrait” series of 60 photos, capturing the sun, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in addition to Earth.

Do we still get images from Voyager 1?

There will be no more pictures; engineers turned off the spacecraft’s cameras, to save memory, in 1990, after Voyager 1 snapped the famous image of Earth as a “pale blue dot” in the darkness. Out there in interstellar space, where Voyager 1 roams, there’s “nothing to take pictures of,” Dodd said.

What planets did Voyager 1 take pictures of?

The Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft explored Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune before starting their journey toward interstellar space. Here you’ll find some of those iconic images, including “The Pale Blue Dot” – famously described by Carl Sagan – and what are still the only up-close images of Uranus and Neptune.

What do Saturn’s rings look like from surface?

The ring particles mostly range from tiny, dust-sized icy grains to chunks as big as a house. A few particles are as large as mountains. The rings would look mostly white if you looked at them from the cloud tops of Saturn, and interestingly, each ring orbits at a different speed around the planet.

How many years would it take to get to Uranus from Saturn?

It encountered all four gas giants, making its closest approach to Uranus on Jan. 24, 1986. This means it took just under a decade to reach the icy giant. NASA discussed sending Cassini to Uranus after it finished studying Saturn, estimating it would take a decade to travel from one planet to the next.

What if Earth had no moon?

It is the pull of the Moon’s gravity on the Earth that holds our planet in place. Without the Moon stabilising our tilt, it is possible that the Earth’s tilt could vary wildly. It would move from no tilt (which means no seasons) to a large tilt (which means extreme weather and even ice ages).

Is Voyager 2 still taking pictures?

Is Voyager 2 still taking pictures? Mission managers removed the software from both spacecraft that controls the camera. The computers on the ground that understand the software and analyze the images do not exist anymore.The cameras and their heaters have also been exposed for years to the very cold conditions at the deep reaches of our solar system.

What is the second planet visited by Voyager 2?

Voyager 2, launched August 20, 1977, visited Jupiter in 1979, Saturn in 1981 and Uranus in 1986 before making its closest approach to Neptune on August 25, 1989. Voyager 2 traveled 12 years at an average velocity of 19 kilometers a second (about 42,000 miles an hour) to reach Neptune, which is 30 times farther from the Sun than Earth is.

When did Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 visit Saturn?

When the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft passed through the Saturn system in 1980 and 1981, they couldn’t see Titan’s surface because of its hazy atmosphere—images from that mission showed a featureless orange world—but they did see the blue haze as a seemingly detached layer of Titan’s upper atmosphere.

What did Voyager 2 discover about Neptune?

What did the space probe discover about Neptune? Originally it was thought that Neptune was too cold to support atmospheric disturbances, but Voyager 2 discovered large-scale storms, most notably