0h12m41s01f NoMusic - Voyager Accomplishments Discoveries - Volcanic Io TR2016a
Channel: Thorium Remix
Date: 2017-05-20

http://ThoriumRemix.com/ Voyagers move at about 40,000 MPH. They gave us our first close up look at Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a hurricane 3x the size of Earth.

Carl Sagan:
We can now make out finer detail on Jupiter than the largest telescopes on Earth have ever obtained.  The cloud patters are distinctive and gorgeous. Its motion hypnotizes us.

4 days after the Voyager 1 encounter with Jupiter I was looking at an optical navigation frame.

It became very evident to me there was an anomalous present in the upper left hand corner just off the rim of Io.

A volcanic plume, and in fact a volcanic eruption.

The Voyagers discovered the first active volcano on another world, on Jupiter's moon Io.

The Voyagers dared to fly across Saturn's rings and revealed that they were made of hundreds of thin bands of orbiting snowballs. 

Voyager successfully completed its mission of discovery to the outer planets, but its odyssey into the darkness was just beginning. 

35 years after its launch, Voyager 1 became the first of our spacecraft to enter an uncharted realm. Until then, we didn't know where the interstellar ocean began.