Pioneer 11, the first spacecraft to Visit Saturn
This image showcased above, show's Saturn and it's amazing rings, the photo was taken from
the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, which entered Saturn's orbit on July 1, 2004.
But what's the first spacecraft send by Humans that encountered Saturn?
NASA's Pioneer 11 spacecraft made a flyby of the ringed planet
on September 1 – in the year 1979, it flew by the ringed world
at speeds up to an incredible
71,000 miles per hour which is
114,000 kilometers per hour at its closest approach.
WHERE IS PIONEER 11 NOW?
NASA's Pioneer 11 spacecraft is on a trajectory that will take it out of our solar system.
The Pioneer 11 spacecraft is traveling at speeds up to 29.5 km/s.
In 4 million years, Pioneer 11 will fly near the star Lambda Aquila.
Pioneer 11 is now at now Distance of 16,306,009,599km from the Sun, and Pioneer 11 is 16,422,808,771km away from Earth.
''The Pioneer spacecrafts is a ghost ship traveling in our galaxy''
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