Thanks for riding along these past few weeks as we 'voyaged' back in time and celebrated 45 years of Voyager! For the rest of time, the Voyagers will continue orbiting around the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, with our sun but a tiny point of light among many.✨
Photo 1: Voyager Encapsulation - The Voyager 2 spacecraft, which was the first of the two Voyagers to launch, is seen at the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility-1 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft was put into this shroud on August 2, 1977, to protect it during flight through the atmosphere.
Photo 2: Mementos of Earth – as the two Voyager spacecraft travel out into deep space, they carry a small American flag and a Golden Record packed with pictures and sounds – mementos of our home planet. This picture shows John Casani, Voyager project manager in 1977.
Photo 3: Voyager 1’s 8-track digital tape recorder
Photo 4: Jupiter’s Great Red Spot – Taken by Voyager 1 from a distance of 2.7 million miles (4.3 million kilometers). The great red spot is three times as large as Earth!
Photo 5: Saturn and three moons taken by Voyager 2
Photo 6: Farewell shot of crescent of Uranus taken by Voyager 2
Photo 7: Detail of Neptune’s rings - This wide-angle Voyager 2 image, taken through the camera's clear filter, is the first to show Neptune's rings in detail.
Photo 8: Earth as ‘Pale Blue Dot’ - part of the first ever 'portrait' of the solar system taken by Voyager 1. From Voyager's great distance Earth is a mere point of light, less than the size of a picture element even in the narrow-angle camera.
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