Editing Saturn (section)

==== ''Voyager'' flybys ====
In November 1980, the ''[[Voyager 1]]'' probe visited the Saturn system. It sent back the first high-resolution images of the planet, its rings and satellites. Surface features of various moons were seen for the first time. ''Voyager 1'' performed a close flyby of Titan, increasing knowledge of the atmosphere of the moon. It proved that Titan's atmosphere is impenetrable at [[visible wavelength]]s; therefore no surface details were seen. The flyby changed the spacecraft's trajectory out of the plane of the Solar System.<ref name="Voyager">{{cite web |url=http://www.planetary.org/explore/topics/saturn/missions.html |title=Missions to Saturn |publisher=The Planetary Society |date=2007 |access-date=24 July 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728044450/http://www.planetary.org/explore/topics/saturn/missions.html |archive-date=28 July 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Almost a year later, in August 1981, ''[[Voyager 2]]'' continued the study of the Saturn system. More close-up images of Saturn's moons were acquired, as well as evidence of changes in the atmosphere and the rings. During the flyby, the probe's turnable camera platform stuck for a couple of days and some planned imaging was lost. Saturn's gravity was used to direct the spacecraft's trajectory towards Uranus.<ref name="Voyager" />

The probes discovered and confirmed several new satellites orbiting near or within the planet's rings, as well as the small [[Maxwell Gap]] (a gap within the [[Rings of Saturn#C Ring|C Ring]]) and [[Keeler gap]] (a 42&nbsp;km-wide gap in the [[A Ring]]).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Spence |first=Pam |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DwR7JtuXnaQC |title=The Universe Revealed |date=1999 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-64239-2 |pages=64 |language=en}}</ref>