Tick, tick, plume! Explaining eruptions on Neptune’s largest moon
Voyager 2 observed unusual dark plumes on the icy moon Triton. Read on to learn what may cause this mysterious process.
Voyager 2 observed unusual dark plumes on the icy moon Triton. Read on to learn what may cause this mysterious process.
Aboard the Voyager probe lies two golden phonographic records with information meant for alien life. Today’s bite explores what we put on those records and why.
Voyager 2 finally crossed the heliopause, the edge of our solar system – so what’s out there?
Let’s take a trip back to 1979 to check out the first signs of an ocean hidden deep beneath Europa’s icy shell.
Bonnie Buratti talks to Astrobites about Saturn, Pluto’s icy heart and the topic of her #AAS230 plenary talk – Rosetta and Comet 67/P.
It’s March 2, 1979. Two years ago, the Voyager spacecraft were launched on trajectories that will allow them to carry out their primary missions: the study of the outer Solar System, in particular Jupiter and Saturn. It’s just three days before Voyager 1’s closest approach to Jupiter. The paper that was published on March 2nd, 1979 in Science is a prediction for what the Voyager spacecraft might see on Io based on the orbital motions of these three satellites.