On November 12th 1980, more than three years after its launch, the U.S. planetary probe Voyager 1 edged within 77,000 miles of Saturn, the second-largest planet in the solar system. The photos, beamed 950 million miles back to California, stunned scientists. The high-resolution images showed a world that seemed to confound all known laws of … Continue reading November 12 1980 Voyager I flies near Saturn