Voyager 2

This condition was still present during Pioneer 11's flyby one year later.

Now, Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter in March 1979, and Voyager 2 followed up four months later.

Images from the Voyagers show a slightly smaller version of the storm than those imaged by the Pioneer spacecraft.

Furthermore, the south equatorial belt was prominent at the time, and the distortion in the belt produced by the storm was very obvious.

These were the sharpest images of Jupiter available at the time and dominated the textbooks during the 1980s.

However, the density of Jupiter's rings is far less than the spectacular rings of Saturn.

Consequently, Jupiter's rings are essentially transparent and not easy to observe.

They were discovered in 1979 by the Voyager 1 spacecraft.

Like Pluto, Triton displays evidence of geological activity that seems improbable for such a small, distant world, activity that challenges our assumptions about what small icy bodies can accomplish.

When Voyager 2 flew past Triton in 1989, the first and so far the only spacecraft to visit this moon, It revealed a landscape of remarkable complexity and strange beauty.

There were cratered regions indicating a long history of impacts, and smooth plains suggesting more recent geological modification.

There were mountains and valleys, icy ridges and canyons carved by processes we are still working to understand.

Most remarkably, Voyager 2 captured evidence of cryovolcanic activity.

Nitrogen geysers erupting from the surface and rising into Triton's thin atmosphere, shooting plumes of icy material several kilometres above the surface.

The geysers appeared as dark streaks in images, evidence that liquid nitrogen and other volatile material was being expelled from beneath the crust with enough force to overcome the moon's weak gravity.

Nice degenerate activity for a degenerate man.

But all of this nonsense about coming back to public life or having a role as far as a dignitary or as a face for the UK and the English people, it is just so far out there that it might as well be in the wake of Voyager 2 as it makes its way into outer space.

I doubt it'll work, but I know he wants to make a comeback.

And after all, what is he supposed to do with the rest of his life? Like I just said, get a hobby, bro.

Those devices keep the spacecraft warm, so they had to swap all three together to cut power and still keep heat where it needs to be.

They'd done the same on Voyager 2 about six weeks earlier.

Without it, Voyager 1 would have had to turn off another science instrument as early as the middle of 2027.

And now, the milestone.

Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause, the edge of the bubble the sun's wind blows around the solar system, in 2012.

Since then, it's been measuring interstellar space directly.

Voyager 2 followed in 2018.

They're the only spacecraft ever to do that, which is why every watt matters so much.

but I know you guys like to hear him in the background, so I'm just letting you know.

Okay, so this was the year that NASA launched Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 into space to explore our solar system, both of which carried golden records that contained sound and images of Earth.

1977 is often called the birth year of personal computing, aka the Trinity of 1977, with the retail debuts of the Apple II, the Commodore PET, the Tandy TRS-80, I was a Tandy 9000 fan myself, along with the release of the Atari 2600 video game console.

Also this year, Romania had a significant earthquake, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake actually, that struck eastern Romania, killing over 1,500 people.

In part, he seems to have perhaps done this movie as a reaction against The Thing, trying to show he wasn't just sort of a gore movie one-trick pony, and also trying to make up for the lackluster financial performance of The Thing, in part by doing sort of the opposite, by having a more benevolent alien, as compared to the alien in The Thing.

In the film, Jeff Bridges plays an alien who comes to Earth as a scout after receiving a message from the Voyager 2 space probe.

The alien's craft gets shot down by the U.S. government, and it crashes in Wisconsin and takes the form of a woman's dead husband.

The widow in question is played by Karen Allen, who's probably best known for playing Marion in Raiders of the Lost Ark.