The Sky at Night
Season 24 Episode 12 - Voyager I Reaches Saturn
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1957
Documentary, News
After a journey of over three years, Voyager 1 has reached Saturn-800 million miles from Earth. Last year the spacecraft bypassed Jupiter and sent back the most spectacular images ever seen of the planet and its satellites. Now it has arrived at Saturn and is transmitting pictures and scientific information about this most beautiful planet. Patrick Moore reports from the Mission Control Centre for Voyager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, with Dr Garry Hunt , and discusses the results with the American scientists responsible for the mission.
Episodes in Season 24
1
Mapping the Sky
2
Saturn: The Disappearing Rings
3
The Man Who Discovered a Planet
4
The Multiple Mirror Telescope
5
Journey to the Centre of the Galaxy
6
Kitt Peak Observatory: the Solar Telescope
7
Quasars
8
The Mapping of Venus
9
Meteor Crater
10
Autumn Equinox
11
The Scintars
12
Voyager I Reaches Saturn
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