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Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn.
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Voyager 2
NASA space probe launched in 1977
Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977, as a part of the Voyager program. It was launched on a trajectory towards the gas giants and enabled further encounters with the ice giants. The only spacecraft to have visited either of the ice giant planets, it…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Saturn
Sixth planet from the Sun
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant, with an average radius of about 9 times that of Earth. It has an eighth the average density of Earth, but is over 95 times more massive. Even though Saturn is…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)