The Voyager 1 probe flies by Saturn. Three years after its launch, the US planetary probe “Voyager 1” passes within 116,000 miles of Saturn, the second-largest planet in the solar system. The photos transmitted from a distance of 950 million miles to its base in California astound scientists. The high-resolution images from Voyagers 1 and 2 reveal a world that seems to defy all the laws of physics. Saturn has not four rings, but hundreds. The rings appear to dance, bend, and intertwine in ways never imagined. Two rings are intertwined, and the images clearly show darker radial lines moving within the rings in the direction of rotation. Its sister probe, “Voyager 2,” arrives at Saturn in August 1981. The Voyagers also observed three new moons orbiting the planet and a massive storm larger than the radius of Earth.
