Can’t remember what my source was saying that either Voyager 1 or 2 arrived at their first destination around May but one go there in January, the other in July so I’ll just accept May as the compromise, hence this month’s header art!
What those two probes sent back was incredible and blew away whatever the earlier Pioneers did in the early Seventies. I remember very clearly in sixth grade how all the best, more revealing photos were featured in National Geographic. Thanks to that issue, I had one of the best and funniest class presentations later in the Winter. Funniest? I gave an illustrated explanation on the chalkboard of why Earth and Jupiter having magnetic fields was important. It wasn’t completely accurate but it had everybody laughing for a couple minutes.
Forty years later, we know even more about our system’s largest planet thanks to Galileo in the Nineties and the current Juno. Maybe one day we’ll have people visit as per 2001, 2010 and Outland.