March 8th in Astronomy and Space Science
![]() | 1979 | The US Voyager 1 spacecraft returns the first photographs showing active volcanos on Jupier's moon Io. These are the first volcanos to be discovered on a planet other than Earth. |
![]() | 1986 | Japan spacecraft Suissei flies past Comet Halley, photographing the nucleus with an ultraviolet camera and detecting it's rotation. |