46 years ago today, NASA's Voyager 1probe arrived at Saturn and beamed back the first images ever taken of its rings. It arrived at our solar system's second-largest planet via a gravitational assist trajectory at Jupiter which was replicated with Voyager 2. On November 12th, when the space probe came within 77,000 miles of Saturn's cloud-tops, the space probe's cameras detected complex structures in the rings of Saturn, and its remote sensing instruments studied the atmospheres of Saturn and its giant moon Titan. READ what it discovered... (1980)
