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The Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft explored Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune before starting their journey toward interstellar space. Here you'll find some of those iconic images, including "The Pale Blue Dot" - famously described by Carl Sagan - and what are still the only up-close images of Uranus and Neptune.
- 45 Years Ago: Voyager 1 Begins its Epic Journey to the Outer Planets ...
Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft outside of the heliosphere, a...
- Voyager 1 - Science@NASA
Voyager 1’s final 64 images were a mosaic taken at a...
- 45 Years Ago: Voyager 1 Begins its Epic Journey to the Outer Planets ...
Voyager 1 was speeding out of the solar system — beyond Neptune and about 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) from the Sun — when mission managers commanded it to look back toward home for a final time. It snapped a series of 60 images that were used to create the first “family portrait” of our solar system.
On February 14, 1990, Voyager 1 took the first "family portrait" of the Solar System as seen from outside, [46] which includes the image of planet Earth known as Pale Blue Dot. Soon afterward, its cameras were deactivated to conserve energy and computer resources for other equipment.
Their journey continues 45 years later as both probes explore interstellar space, the region outside the protective heliosphere created by our Sun. Researchers – some younger than the spacecraft – are now using Voyager data to solve mysteries of our solar system and beyond.
7 wrz 2022 · Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft outside of the heliosphere, a protective bubble created by the sun that extends well past the orbit of Neptune. On New Year’s Day 1990, both spacecraft officially began the Voyager Interstellar Mission as they inexorably made their escape from our solar system.
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Voyager 1’s final 64 images were a mosaic taken at a distance of 40 Astronomical Units (AU) from the Sun. This solar system family portrait included six planets (Mercury and Mars were not visible).
