Exploration
Most of the inner satellites have been imaged by the spacecraft Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. The majority have only been seen in images as single pixels, or resolved to only a few pixels across. However fairly detailed surface features have been seen on the following moons:
| Planet | Spacecraft | |||
| Voyager 1 | Voyager 2 | Galileo | Cassini | |
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| Jupiter | Amalthea | Amalthea Thebe |
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| Saturn | Pandora Prometheus Janus Epimetheus |
Atlas Pandora Prometheus Janus Epimetheus |
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| Uranus | Puck | |||
| Neptune | Larissa Proteus |
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Famous quotes containing the word exploration:
“Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“I call her old. She has one family
Whose claim is good to being settled here
Before the era of colonization,
And before that of exploration even.
John Smith remarked them as he coasted by....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“For women who do not love us, as for the “disappeared”, knowing that we no longer have any hope does not prevent us form continuing to wait. We live on our guard, on watch; women whose son has gone asea on a dangerous exploration imagine at any minute, although it has long been certain that he has perished, that he will enter, miraculously saved, and healthy.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)