Enjoy some Jovian eye candy on the anniversary of Voyager 1's closest approach to the planet on March 5, 1979

A time-lapse movie uses images taken from Jan. 6 to Feb. 3 1979 by the Voyager 1 spacecraft as it was heading toward it's closest approach to the planet on March 5, 19979. (Source: NASA Planetary Photojournal) It has been 37 years since the Voyager 1 spacecraft began sending back glorious, up-close imagery of Jupiter and its coterie of moons. And today, March 5th, marks the actual anniversary of the spacecraft's closest approach to the giant gaseous planet. So I thought I'd share this animation of images taken by the spacecraft as it was making its final approach to Jupiter. It's known as the Voyager "Blue Movie," because it was built from images acquired through a blue filter. The sequence consists of 66 images taken each time Jupiter rotated once on its axis. (Each of these Jovian days lasted about 10 hours.) At the start of the approach documented in ...