Voyager 2: on the threshold of Uranus.

From: Science News | Date: January 18, 1986| Author: Eberhart, Jonathan | Copyright information

Voyager 2: On the threshold of Uranus

The Voyager 2 spacecraft's hurtling flight past Uranus, less than a week away, will be the probe's third planetary encounter since it was launched in 1977. Yet the mood of anticipation surrounding the event's approach is different than it was for either Jupiter or Saturn. Unlike Uranus, of course, those two worlds had been visited before--by Pioneers 10 and 11 and then by Voyager 1. But the extreme remoteness of Uranus, nearly twice...

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