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10 kwi 2024 · Voyager at Jupiter. Photography of Jupiter began in January 1979, when images of the brightly banded planet already exceeded the best taken from Earth. Voyager 1 completed its Jupiter encounter in early April, after taking almost 19,000 pictures and many other scientific measurements.
- Early Voyager 1 Images
Voyager 1. These Jupiter photographs are part of a set taken...
- Voyager Picture
NASA's Voyager 1 took this picture of the planet Jupiter on...
- Images Voyager Took of Jupiter
Photography of Jupiter began in January 1979, when images of...
- Early Voyager 1 Images
This photo of Jupiter was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on the evening of March 1, 1979, from a distance of 2.7 million miles (4.3 million kilometers). The photo shows Jupiter's Great Red Spot (top) and one of the white ovals.
Voyager 1. These Jupiter photographs are part of a set taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on December 10 and 11, 1978 from a distance of 83 million km (52 million miles) or more than half the distance from the Earth to the sun.
Voyager 1 began studying Jupiter in April 1978 at a range of 165 million miles (265 million km). Images showed Jupiter’s atmosphere to be more turbulent than during the Pioneer 10 and 11 flybys. Voyager 1 took a picture every 96 seconds to create a timelapse movie of the approach.
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.
4 lis 1998 · NASA's Voyager 1 took this picture of the planet Jupiter on Jan. 6, 1979, the first in its three-month-long, close-up investigation of the largest planet.
Photography of Jupiter began in January 1979, when images of the brightly banded planet already exceeded the best taken from Earth. Voyager 1 completed its Jupiter encounter in early April, after taking almost 19,000 pictures and many other scientific measurements.