Voyager 1 & 2

I'm continuing to celebrate my Jupiter shirt going to print on Cotton Bureau by sharing NASA missions to our largest planet.

Launched on Sept 5, 1977, Voyager 1 was the next mission to encounter Jupiter. The spacecraft began photographing Jupiter in Jan 1979 during it's flyby. It captured up-close images of the planet's moons and rings. It even discovered active volcanoes on the moon Io! Voyager 2's flyby of Jupiter started a few months later on Apr 25, 1979. Both went on to explore and study the outer solar system.

NASA is still in contact with both spacecraft. Voyager 1 is beyond our solar system in interstellar space at 12.46 billion miles away from the sun! I can't even wrap my brain around that.