... Jupiter's rings were discovered in 1979 by the passing Voyager 1 spacecraft , but their origin was a mystery. ... Data from the Galileo spacecraft that orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003 later confirmed that these rings were created by ...
... 2000 September 26 . Approaching Jupiter . Credit: Voyager 1 Spacecraft Team , JPL , NASA . ... Explanation: In 1979 the Voyager 1 spacecraft compiled this view as it approached the gas giant Jupiter . ...
... Explanation: This Rosetta spacecraft selfie was snapped on October 7th. ... At the time the spacecraft was about 472 million kilometers from planet Earth , but ... Looming beyond the spacecraft near the top of the frame, dust and gas stream away ...
... On Saturday the 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral ... a Delta II rocket lifted the robot spacecraft, located in the nose cone, off the ... The spacecraft's name is a tribute to 2001: A Space Odyssey , an epic fictional ...
... Explanation: Cassini, a robot spacecraft launched in 1997 by NASA , is close enough now to resolve many rings and moons of its ... The spacecraft has now closed to within a single Earth-Sun separation from the ringed giant . ...
... since late 1995, the voyage of NASA's Galileo spacecraft will soon come to an end ... The spacecraft has been targeted to plunge directly into Jupiter this Sunday ... spectacular scientific legacy , the spacecraft's ultimate fate is related to perhaps ...
... Last week the robotic Dawn spacecraft ended its year-long mission to asteroid Vesta , becoming the first spacecraft ever to visit this far off world located between Mars and Jupiter, in the Solar System's main asteroid belt . ...
... To prepare for the Apollo landings , five Lunar Orbiter spacecraft were launched during 1966 and 1967 to gather detailed images ... Dramatic views returned by the spacecraft cameras included this stark moonscape . ...