40 lat temu, 26 sierpnia 1981 roku nastąpiło najbliższe zbliżenie sondy Voyager 2 do Saturna.https://twitter.com/NASAVoyager/status/143066949012399309140 Years On, Remembering Voyager's Legacy at SaturnAugust 24, 2021 By Elizabeth Landau, Preston Dyches, and Amanda Barnett
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/1985/40-years-on-remembering-voyagers-legacy-at-saturn/40 Years Ago: Voyager 2 Explores SaturnAug 26, 2021
Voyager 2’s parting view of Saturn, taken from 2.1 million miles.Voyager 2 began its long-range observations of Saturn on June 5, 1981, when the spacecraft was still 41 million miles from the planet, and sent back progressively sharper images of the planet, its atmosphere, and its rings as Voyager 2 closed in on its target. It returned spectacular photographs of the rings and small shepherd moons such as Prometheus and Pandora that act to herd the rings’ particles. Three days before its closest approach to Saturn, Voyager 2 imaged the two-toned moon Iapetus from 565,000 miles away, and two days later it photographed the moon Hyperion from 310,000 miles. Eighteen hours before closest approach, it passed within 413,000 miles of Saturn’s largest satellite Titan and returned images of its orange cloud cover. After passing within 26,000 miles of Saturn’s cloud tops, Voyager 2 photographed the icy moon Enceladus from 54,000 miles, the small moon Janus from 140,000 miles, and Tethys from 58,000 miles. Three days after its closest approach, Voyager 2 turned its camera on a partially backlit Saturn, returning stunning photographs from 2.1 million miles away. On Sept. 4, it imaged the tiny moon Phoebe from 1.3 million miles, revealing little of its surface features. By the time observations of the Saturn system concluded on Sept. 28, the spacecraft had returned 16,000 images of the planet, its rings, and its satellites. (...)
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/40-years-ago-voyager-2-explores-saturnhttp://www.astronautix.com/v/voyager.htmlKHW 2016
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Voyager 2 i NeptunW tym roku mijają 32 lata od przelotu sondy Voyager 2 obok Neptuna.
https://kosmonauta.net/2019/08/30-lat-temu-voyager-2-i-neptun/Sonda Voyager 2 rozpoczęła obserwacje Neptuna w maju 1988 roku. Przelot tego gazowego giganta nastąpił pod koniec sierpnia 1989 roku. Minimalny dystans pomiędzy Voyagerem 2 a Neptunem wyniósł mniej niż 5000 km oraz około 40 tysięcy km od Trytona – największego księżyca tej planety.