Voyager at Uranus

At its closet, the spacecraft came within 81,800 kilometers (50,600 miles) of Uranus's cloudtops on Jan. 24, 1986. Voyager 2 radioed thousands of images and voluminous amounts of other scientific data on the planet, its moons, rings, atmosphere, interior and the magnetic environment surrounding Uranus.

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This is an image of the planet Uranus taken by the spacecraft Voyager 2 in 1986.
This is an image of the planet Uranus taken by the spacecraft Voyager 2 in 1986.
These two pictures of Uranus -- one in true color (left) and the other in false color -- were compiled...
Two images of Uranus side-by-side. The left image shows Uranus in its true light blue color. The right images reveals the atmosphere in false color.
Uranus' icy moon Miranda is seen in this image from Voyager 2 on January 24, 1986.
This dramatic Voyager 2 picture reveals a continuous distribution of small particles throughout the Uranus ring system.
Tight concentric rings extending from the planet.
The complex terrain of Ariel is viewed in this image, the best Voyager 2 color picture of the Uranian moon....
Ridges and valleys snake between the rugged, crater-filled surface of Ariel.
This view of Uranus was recorded by Voyager 2 on Jan 25, 1986, as the spacecraft left the planet behind...
A thin blue crescent illuminated by the Sun is all that's visible of giant Uranus.
This picture is part of the highest-resolution Voyager 2 imaging sequence of Ariel, a moon of Uranus about 1,300 kilometers...
Ariels rugged, pock-marked terrain reveals its complexity in this close-up image.
Voyager 2 obtained this full-disk view of Uranus' moon Titania in the early morning hours of Jan. 24, 1986, from...
Miranda, innermost of Uranus' large satellites, is seen at close range in this Voyager 2 image, taken Jan. 24, 1986,...
A close-up of Miranda reveals tall mesas and deep, sinuous valleys.