This is the Web Edition of "A Trip Into Space", a Coimbra-based electronic book on space science. Both the texts and the photos are by courtesy of National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
| This is the Web Edition of "A Trip Into Space", a Coimbra-based electronic book on space science. Both the texts and the photos are by courtesy of National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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A Trip Into Space  Spacecrafts Voyager Voyager |
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| See also: Voyager - The Video/Audio Disc Mounted On The Side Of Voyager, Voyager |   |
Twin Voyager spacecraft, depicted here in a full-scale model, are now traveling through the outer solar system. Voyager 1 has completed its mission to Jupiter and Saturn and is now outbound from the solar system. Voyager 2 followed its sister craft to Jupiter and Saturn and is on its way to encounters at Uranus in January 1986 and Neptune in August 1989.
In this view, the science boom, containing cameras and other instruments requiring pointing, is seen at right. The dominant feature at center, the 12-foot-diameter high-gain antenna, provides communication between the spacecraft and controllers on Earth. Just below is a shiny gold disk, a record called "Sounds of Earth," bearing messages and pictures from our planet. The Voyagers are managed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Last Update: 2004-Nov-27