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Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, ... includes photos of the Earth and its lifeforms, a range of scientific information, ...
Family Portrait. (Voyager) The Family Portrait, or sometimes Portrait of the Planets, is an image of the Solar System acquired by Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990, from a distance of approximately 6 billion km (40 AU; 3.7 billion mi) from Earth. It features individual frames of six planets and a partial background indicating their relative positions.
Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from an unprecedented distance of approximately 6 billion kilometers ( 3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU ), as part of that day's Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System . In the photograph, Earth's apparent size is less than a pixel; the ...
April 26, 2024 at 4:52 PM. After working for five months to re-establish communication with the farthest-flung human-made object in existence, NASA announced this week that the Voyager 1 probe had ...
Voyager 1’s flight data system collects information from the spacecraft’s science instruments and bundles it with engineering data that reflects its current health status. Mission control on ...
After months of silence, Voyager 1 has returned NASA's calls. Corinne Purtill. April 23, 2024 at 11:13 PM. Voyager 1, seen in an artist's rendering, is the farthest human-made object from Earth ...
The Voyager Golden Record contains 116 images and a variety of sounds. The items for the record, which is carried on both the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft, were selected for NASA by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan of Cornell University. Included are natural sounds (including some made by animals), musical selections from different ...
Voyager 1: First full-disk picture of both Earth and the Moon. February 14, 1990 The Pale Blue Dot is the first image of Earth from beyond all of the other Solar System planets. It is part of the first picture of the full extent of the planetary system, known as the Family Portrait. December 11, 1990 Galileo