Voyager 2’s closest approach to Jupiter

The Voyager probes are humanity’s longest running spacecraft as they have been flying since 1977. The thin rings surrounding Jupiter, as had been seen by Voyager 1 as well, were confirmed by images looking back at the giant planet as the spacecraft departed for Saturn. Studies all four giant planets Four decades after its closest approach to Jupiter, Voyager 2 successfully fired up its trajectory correction manoeuvre thrusters on July 8, 2019. In those 40 years, Voyager 2 had achieved flybys of Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, thereby becoming the only spacecraft to study all four giant planets of the solar system at close range. Having entered interstellar space on December 10, 2018, Voyager 2 is now over 132 AU away from the Earth, still relaying back data from unexplored regions deep in space.