Voyager I and Voyager II informative video

[Tom.G]

13 minutes of background and findings by the Voyager spacecraft s, at the popular level. Rather well done.



Cheers,
Tom

 

[lippyka]

Voyager 1 and 2 are two of the most iconic spacecraft ever launched. Launched in 1977, they have been exploring the solar system since then. They have traveled farther than any other spacecraft in history and provided us with an incredible amount of information about our universe.Voyager 1 was the first to reach interstellar space in 2012, becoming the most distant human-made object. It is now more than 20 billion kilometers from Earth, and continues to travel further away every day.Voyager 2 followed in 2018, becoming the only spacecraft to explore all four of the outer planets in our solar system. It has revealed countless details about Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, as well as their moons.Along the way, Voyager has taken some of the most iconic images in space exploration, including the “Pale Blue Dot” photo of Earth taken by Voyager 1.The spacecrafts have also returned data on a variety of topics, like the nature of interplanetary magnetic fields, the interactions between Jupiter’s atmosphere and its moon Io, and the composition of the atmospheres of the outer planets.Voyager's discoveries have helped shape our understanding of the solar system, and have given us a better understanding of the universe beyond our planet.Finally, Voyager 1 and 2 are still going strong, with both spacecrafts continuing to send data back to Earth. They’re expected to function