NASA's Voyager probes are powering down. Here are 18 key photos from their 45-year mission. | Business Insider

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NASA's Voyager probes are powering down. Here are 18 key photos from their 45-year mission.

. The flyby gave scientists unprecedented insight into the planet's ring structure, atmosphere, and moons.A Voyager probe took this false-color image of Saturn's rings on August 23, 1981.Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons, as seen by Voyager.Voyager 1 looked back to Saturn on November 16, 1980, to give this unique perspective on its rings, partially covered in shadow.Voyager 2 captured these images, in true color and false-color of Neptune in 1986.

But Voyager 2 kept on its exploration of our nearest planets, passing within 50,600 miles of Uranus in January 1986. Its pictures of Uranus' largest moons also uncovered 11 previously unseen moons.NASA/JPLVoyager 2 was the first spacecraft to observe Neptune from a close distance. Neptune, seen in false color by Voyager 2 in 1989. Here, the red or white coloring means that sunlight is passing through a methane-rich atmosphere.A picture shows the blue Neptune in full.Triton, as seen by Voyager 2 in 1989.Another shows Triton's southern hemisphere.

 

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