Go, Voyager 1!

Voyager 1 has left the solar system.

Eye test

This one?

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), and IPHAS

or this one?

Magellan's Trip to Venus

Image Credit: NASA

 
On May 4, 1989, NASA launched Space Shuttle mission STS-30, which included the Magellan spacecraft, also known as the Venus Radar Mapper.

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Here are some pictures from the mission.

Here are a few more Venus-related items you might find interesting:
    "Farewell, Fantastic Venus!"
   "Should We Terraform Venus First?"
    Venus Transit 2012
    Some quotes that mention Venus

Have you read any science fiction works about Venus?

NASA's MAVEN

Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Mars needs poems.

The hunt is on for some haiku.

Any poets out there?

Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard

... was born on this day in 1882.