Bradford A. Smith Biography

Voyager 1 records the first spacecraft image showing Earth and the Moon together in a single frame.

Voyager 1 obtains detailed images of the Great Red Spot and surrounding turbulent cloud motions.

Leads Voyager imaging studies revealing detailed structures in Jupiter's belts, zones and storms.

Voyager 1 imagery reveals the faint ring encircling Jupiter.

Voyager science imagery identifies the small Saturnian moon later named Atlas.

Voyager 1 images reveal the complex braided appearance of Saturn's narrow F ring.

Voyager imaging shows small moons gravitationally confining material around Saturn's F ring.

Voyager 1 images Saturn's rings and reveals intricate ring structure.

Voyager imagery identifies small moons associated with the confinement of Uranus's narrow rings.

Voyager 2 returns unprecedented close images of Miranda during the Uranus encounter.

Leads Voyager imaging work during the Uranus encounter.

Voyager 2 images reveal a smaller dark atmospheric storm on Neptune in addition to the Great Dark Spot.

Voyager imaging identifies bright methane-ice clouds suspended high in Neptune's exceptionally clear atmosphere.

Voyager imaging shows that Neptune is unexpectedly meteorologically active despite receiving little solar energy.

Voyager imagery indicates bright methane clouds above a deeper cloud deck in Neptune's atmosphere.

Voyager 2 images reveal a bright, rapidly moving cloud feature nicknamed the Scooter in Neptune's atmosphere.

Voyager 2 images reveal the Earth-sized Great Dark Spot in Neptune's atmosphere.

Voyager observations resolve concentrated bright arcs embedded within Neptune's Adams ring.

Leads imaging observations of Neptune, its storms and rings.