On March 4, 1979, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft took the first photos of rings around Jupiter. Discover more space history 👉https://space-com.visitlink.me/GWXr7R This was the first time anyone had seen Jupiter’s rings. Because the rings are so thin and faint, it's extremely difficult to see them from Earth with ground-based telescopes. Even for a spacecraft out near Jupiter, the rings are essentially invisible unless the cameras look at them edge-on or from an angle where sunlight shines directly