Pan: Discovered by Mark Showalter in 1990 using images captured by Voyager 2, nine years ... But Mimas continues to puzzle scientists. The small moon orbits closer to Saturn than Enceladus and ...

When the Voyager 2 spacecraft ... have continued to puzzle scientists in the decades since the historic flyby. Now, a new look at the data has revealed that Voyager 2 happened to zoom by the ...

Neptune lies in the frigid, dark, vast frontier of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles away from the ...

They were the third and fourth spacecraft to visit Jupiter and Saturn, and Voyager 2 was the first to visit Uranus and Neptune – providing a treasure trove of information that exceeded anything ...

Although the motor was originally tested to 500,000 steps (enough to make sure it lasted until Voyager 2 reached Saturn in August 1980), the motor will have since completed over 8.5 million steps ...

Voyager 2 was launched on August 20, 1977, on a trajectory toward the solar system’s gas giants, Jupiter and Saturn, and explored the icy giants Uranus and Neptune. Voyager 1 is more than 15 ...

Voyager 1 discovered a thin ring around Jupiter and several of Saturn’s moons, and Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune. Each spacecraft still has three instruments ...

The motor was tested to 500,000 steps—enough to guarantee continuous operation through the mission's encounters with Saturn, which occurred in August 1980 for Voyager 2. By the time it is ...