Voyager at Saturn

The Voyager 1 and 2 Saturn encounters occurred nine months apart, in November 1980 and August 1981. Voyager 2 completed its encounter with Uranus in January 1986 and with Neptune in August 1989. Both are now leaving the solar system.

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Saturn's rings are bright and its northern hemisphere defined by bright features as NASA's Voyager 2 approaches Saturn, which it...
Enhanced color bring out the swirling bands of clouds on Saturn.
Voyager 2 obtained this high-resolution picture of Saturn's rings Aug. 22, when the spacecraft was 4 million kilometers (2.5 million...
Hundreds of rings are packed together in a graceful circle around Saturn.
Multiple impact craters are seen on the ancient surface of Saturn's moon Rhea in this picture taken by Voyager 1...
A closeup of the limb of Rhea reveals a surface covered with impact craters.
Titan's thick haze layer is shown in this enhanced Voyager 1 image taken Nov. 12, 1980 at a distance of...
Voyager 1 image of Saturn and its ring taken Nov. 16, 1980 four days after closest approach to Saturn, from...
Cloaked in darkness, Saturn casts a shadow across its rings - a view that can only be seen from beyond Saturn.
This view focusing on Saturn's C-ring (and to a lesser extent, the B-ring at top and left) was compiled from...
Dozens of tight, concentric rings fill this close up of Saturn's rings.
Voyager 2 returned this view of Saturn and its ring system Aug. 11, when the spacecraft was 13.9 million kilometers...
A view of Saturn, tilted at an at an angle.
This Voyager 2 mosaic of Enceladus was made from images taken through the clear, violet and green filters Aug. 25,...
Saturn and its satellites Tethys (outer left), Enceladus (inner left) and Mimas (right of rings) are seen in this mosaic...
Three moons appear is small dots orbiting Saturn in this full view of the giant planet and its vast rings.
The extensive ribbonlike cloud structure in Saturn's atmosphere is visible in this Voyager 2 green-filter photograph, obtained Aug. 23 from...
A squiggly band of clouds runs through more uniform bands of clouds.
Possible variations in chemical composition from one part of Saturn's ring system to another are visible in this Voyager 2...
Enhanced color makes individual bands of rings stand out in comparison to one another.
Saturn's outermost large moon, Iapetus, has a bright, heavily cratered icy terrain and a dark terrain, as shown in this...
Half of a small moon is covered in dark terrain, while the other lighter hemisphere stands out in stark contrast.
Saturn and two of its moons, Tethys (above) and Dione, were photographed by Voyager 1 on November 3, 1980, from...
Two small moons orbit Saturn in this expansive view of half the planet and its rings.