My mom requested this one, and honestly it's such a great anecdote from the Voyager mission that I just had to. Voyager 1 was specifically directed toward Titan (which would put it on a trajectory that would not allow it to continue to Uranus and Neptune) because it was known at the time that Titan had a thick atmosphere, and astronomers were really curious about what the surface looked like.
Well, turns out Titan has a thick, opaque atmosphere, so we got lots of great pictures of a fuzzy, featureless orange ball. Oops. (Thankfully Voyager 2 made it to Uranus and Neptune, and Cassini-Huygens came back later with radar and a cute little lander to give us a proper look at the surface.)
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