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Events on Tuesday 25 August 1981 1
1981Voyager 2 flies by SaturnSecond spacecraft to survey Saturn and its moonsNASA's Voyager 2 probe made its closest approach to Saturn on 25 August 1981, returning detailed images of the planet's rings and moons. It confirmed and extended discoveries made by Voyager 1 the previous year. The spacecraft continued on toward Uranus and Neptune.