Voyager 2's Jupiter flyby occurred on July 9, 1979, at a distance of 404,003 miles (650,180 kilometers). The spacecraft's observations confirmed the Great Red Spot as a storm system and discovered ...

On July 9, 1979, Voyager 2 made its closest approach to the largest planet in our solar system. Now in interstellar space, Voyager 2 altered some of our ideas about the Jovian system. A.S.Ganesh ...

Voyager 2 flew by the Jupiter system on July 9, 1979, and discovered a host of surprises — including a series of cracks on the surface of one Jupiter's moons, Europa.

On July 9, 1979, Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Jupiter and snapped this photo of the largest planet in our solar system with its moon Io orbiting beside it.

On July 9, 1979, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter. It came within 354,000 miles (570,000 kilometers) of the planet's cloud tops. Voyager 2 was one of two space ...

Voyager 2 was launched from NASA ’s Kennedy Space Center and it initially visited Jupiter on July 9, 1979. It took the first-ever close-up images of Jupiter’s ring system and discovered a new ...

Jets have been detected in Jupiter's magnetosphere, the area around a planet where its magnetic field holds sway.

1977: Voyager 2 is launched in August and Voyager 1 follows in September, returning the first photo of the Earth and moon taken from space. 1979: Voyager 1 makes its closest approach to Jupiter in ...

Launched in 1977, engineers at NASA have managed to keep the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft flying for nearly 42 years – longer than any other spacecraft in history. But as NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

The fictional Voyager 6 was the subject of the 1979 movie, “Star Trek, The Motion Picture,” as alien life forms found the far-traveling probe and sent it back toward Earth on a deadly, new ...

During its journey to interstellar space, Voyager 2 visited Jupiter in 1979, Saturn in 1981, Uranus in 1986, and Neptune in 1989.