jan 1, 1977 - Voyager Probes Launched

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- Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere with dozens of interacting hurricane-like storm systems

- Erupting volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io, which has 100 times the volcanic activity of Earth

- The Io torus, a thick ring of ionized sulfur and oxygen shed by Io that inflates Jupiter's giant magnetic field

- An indication of an ocean beneath the cracked icy crust of Jupiter's moon Europa

- Waves and fine structure in Saturn's icy rings from the tugs of nearby moons, and small moons shepherding the narrow, kinky F-ring

- A deep, smoggy nitrogen atmosphere on Saturn's moon Titan, likely having clouds and rain of methane

- Complex and diverse surfaces of frozen moons shaped by icy volcanism and faults

- Neptune's Great Dark Spot and 1,600 kilometer-per-hour winds (1,000 miles per hour)

- Geysers erupting from the polar cap Neptune's moon Triton at -390 degrees Fahrenheit

- The termination shock where the supersonic solar wind abruptly slows, forming the final frontier of the solar system

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