Saturn

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1. Story
2. The second stop for both spacecraft and the decision point of the mission. Voyager 1 passed on 12 November 1980 and Voyager 2 on 25 August 1981. The encounters resolved the rings into thousands of individual ringlets, found braided and shepherded structures that ring dynamics had not predicted, and added several small moons. Saturn also set the two trajectories apart permanently: Voyager 1's pass was shaped around a close approach to Titan, which threw it out of the ecliptic plane, while Voyager 2's was shaped to continue to Uranus. Not a place on Earth.
3. Knowledge
4. Saturn
5. Connections
6. Voyager 1
7. Voyager 2
8. Titan
9. The Grand Tour alignment
10. Voyager 1 passes Saturn and Titan, and leaves the plane of the planets
11. Voyager 2 passes Saturn and continues towards Uranus
12. Pioneer 11
13. Cassini–Huygens
14. Pioneer 11 passes Saturn — the first spacecraft to reach it
15. Cassini enters orbit around Saturn
16. Cassini’s Grand Finale — flown into Saturn to end the mission
17. Evidence
18. The encounter dates and principal findings at Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, including the Jovian ring, the resolved ring structure at Saturn, the tilted and offset Uranian magnetic field and the newly found moons at both ice giants. V55 verification basis: THE PAGES WERE NOT REACHED — science.nasa.gov is blocked by this session's egress proxy and the search budget was exhausted. Everything attributed here is standard mission record from general knowledge; a curator must confirm each encounter date and each count of newly discovered moons against NASA's own pages.