1-154-844 - NASA/Oxford Science Archive/Heritage Images

Full view of Saturn and her rings, 1980. This picture, taken from Voyager 1 at 34 million kilometres, clearly shows the cloud patterns on the planet and the gap in the ring system. Two Voyager spacecraft were launched in 1977 to explore the planets in the outer solar system. Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter at 278,000 kilometres in March 1979 and then past Saturn at a height of 124,000 kilometres in November 1980.