NASA's Voyager 2 Flew By Saturn 35 Years Ago Today

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By BeauHDAug 26, 2016, 3:00 am400 pts
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Space.com: Thirty-five years ago today, a NASA spacecraft got an up-close look at beautiful, enigmatic Saturn. On Aug. 25, 1981, the Voyager 2 probe zoomed within 26,000 miles (41,000 kilometers) of the ringed planet's cloud tops. The discoveries made by Voyager 2 -- and…

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