Managers wanted to try the patch on Voyager 2 before transmitting ... Uranus, and Neptune on its outbound journey. Both spacecraft run off nuclear batteries, which convert heat from decaying ...

For the engineers and scientists who work on NASA’s longest-operating mission ... Voyager 2, which is 12.6 billion miles away, had close encounters with Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune ...

Repairs are to be expected, as was the case earlier this year when NASA beamed a pair of software patches out to both Voyager ... Neptune, to now exploring interstellar space, a place where no ...

but later the exploration of Uranus and Neptune was added, and in 1990, the purpose was switched to exploration beyond the solar system. We are carrying out the mission above. However, on Voyager ...

Voyager captured deep-blue patches in the atmosphere that ... about the size of Earth—the Great Dark Spot. No spacecraft has visited Neptune since. Or Uranus. Planetary scientists, in their ...

NASA engineers say they've fixed a problem that had temporarily halted all but basic communications with Voyager 1, the ...

During the Voyager 2 flyby, the spacecraft observed a vortex amid Neptune’s clouds that scientists ... but scientists think that they blossom in weak patches close to the equator, rather than ...

Alice Gorman, Associate Professor in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University On Aug. 20, 1977, 45 years ago, an extraordinary spacecraft ... Neptune. Gallery: Celebrate 45 years of ...

directed searches for life-supporting conditions on Mars and above all managed the science team of the Voyager missions that explored Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune along with their moons — the ...

Why it's so special: Only one spacecraft has ever visited the eighth and most distant planet from the sun. On Aug. 25, 1989, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft took the first-ever close-up images of Neptune.

NASA's Voyager mission ... Uranus, and Neptune—one of NASA's earliest efforts to explore the secrets of the universe. These twin probes later became the first spacecraft to operate in ...

On their journeys through the solar system, the Voyager spacecraft beamed startling images back to Earth—of Jupiter and Saturn, then Uranus and Neptune and their moons. Voyager 1’s most famous shot ...