Voyager 1: first man-made object to leave the solar system
Voyager 1 facts
Launched from Cape Canaveral on September 5, 1977 onboard a Titan-Centaur rocket Voyager has been the most distant human-made object in space since 1998, when it passed the Pioneer 10 probe
Between them, Voyager 1 and 2 explored the giant planets of our outer solar system and the moons, rings, and magnetic fields that surround them
Both Voyager spacecraft carry a 12-inch gold-plated copper phonograph record containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on earth
The records are intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form, or future humans, who may find them Famous space scientist Carl Sagan headed the NASA committee responsible for selecting material for the records
Launched from Cape Canaveral on September 5, 1977 onboard a Titan-Centaur rocket Voyager has been the most distant human-made object in space since 1998, when it passed the Pioneer 10 probe
Between them, Voyager 1 and 2 explored the giant planets of our outer solar system and the moons, rings, and magnetic fields that surround them
Both Voyager spacecraft carry a 12-inch gold-plated copper phonograph record containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on earth
The records are intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form, or future humans, who may find them Famous space scientist Carl Sagan headed the NASA committee responsible for selecting material for the records
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| Comparison of sizes of lengths with order of magnitude 1e13m: Sedna's orbit (left); comet Hale Bopp's orbit (lower, faint orange); one light-day (yellow spherical shell with yellow Vernal point arrow as radius); the Termination Shock (blue shell); positions of Voyager 1 (red arrow) and Pioneer 10 (green arrow); Kuiper Belt (small faint gray torus); orbits of Pluto (small tilted ellipse inside Kuiper Belt) and Neptune (smallest ellipse); all to scale. No transparency version. |
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| This artist's concept shows the general locations of NASA's two Voyager spacecraft. |
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