Voyager 1 Encounters Saturn by NASA
English | June 1980 | ISBN: 9997468570 | 28 Pages | ePub | 4 MB
No other generation has had the opportunity or the technology to reach beyond our world-to see, to touch, to hear the forces that shape our universe. In slightly over two decades, man has ingeniously explored five distant planets-and two dozen moons.

No other generation has had the opportunity or the technology to reach beyond our world-to see, to touch, to hear the forces that shape our universe. In slightly over two decades, man has ingeniously explored five distant planets-and two dozen moons. We have seen their weather and surfaces, landed on some, probed the atmospheres of others, and listened to their radio noises.
Under the planetary exploration program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Voyager Mission, begun in 1972, was designed to explore Jupiter, Saturn, their satellites, rings, magnetic fields, and interplanetary space. Two automated, reprogrammable spacecraft, Voyagers 1 and 2, were launched in late summer of 1977. Their goals: the outer planets.