ON THIS DAY: In 1979, the Voyager 2 probe, on its grand tour of our solar system, discovered three new moons orbiting Jupiter. Which may have been the inspiration for 1981's OUTLAND. It's HIGH NOON in outer space as Sean Connery, as The Law on a mining operation on Io (one of Jupiter's satellites), pisses off the powers that be back home when he looks into weird behavior on the part of some of the miners. [today's movie at IMDb]

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