Close-up

Seen close-up, things have a way of showing their defects, their innate ugliness.

Pioneer 10 returned the first close-up pictures of Jupiter, measured the temperature of Jupiter's atmosphere, and mapped its magnetic field.

Pioneer 11 flew past Saturn and its moon Titan in 1979 during which the first close-up images of that planet and its rings were radioed to Earth.

In 1986, four and one-half years after visiting Saturn, Voyager 2 made the first close-up survey of Uranus.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

Saturn and its ring system are so special that three spacecraft have visited the planet over the past 30 years to take some close-up views.

Ida was the second asteroid to be observed close-up by a spacecraft, when the Space Probe Galileo took pictures as it flew by on Aug 28, 1993. These pictures showed not only that Ida has a cratered surface, but also that it has a small moon, called Dactyl, which is about 1.6 x 1.2 km in diameter and orbiting 90 km away from the asteroid.

In 1962, Mariner 2 completed the first successful close-up observations of another planet when it flew by Venus.

I should redo the close-up in the fifth panel; that expression didn't convince me just now.

The Trojan asteroids "are the last major population of objects in our solar system that have not yet been seen close-up by spacecraft," Statler said.