Voyager 1 Images

The following is a listing of pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard the voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft.

Voyager 1 images. 16 1980 four days after the spacecraft flew past the planet to observe the appearance of saturn and its rings from this unique perspective. 14 1990 voyager 1 s cameras were pointed backward and captured about 60 images of the sun and planets the first portrait of our solar system as seen from the outside. This is a real time indicator of voyager 1 s distance from earth in astronomical units au and either miles mi or kilometers km. Here you ll find some of those iconic images including the pale blue dot famously described by carl sagan and what are still the only up close images of uranus and neptune.

In the nasa eyes on the solar system app you can see the real spacecraft trajectories of the voyagers which are updated every five minutes. Because earth moves around the sun faster than voyager 1 is speeding away from the inner solar system the distance between earth and the spacecraft actually decreases at certain times of year. Solar system portrait views of 6 planets. This narrow angle color image of the earth dubbed pale blue dot is a part of the first ever portrait of the solar system taken by voyager 1.

Images on the golden record. Distance and velocities are updated in real time. Sagan and his associates assembled 115 images and. Early voyager 1 images of jupiter full resolution.

The spacecraft acquired a total of 60 frames for a mosaic of the solar system from a distance of more than 4 billion miles from earth and about 32 degrees above the ecliptic. Vg iss narrow angle. This narrow angle color image of the earth s a part of the first ever portrait of the solar system taken by voyager 1. Tiff 491 5 kb jpeg 21 78 kb 1996 09 13.

Both voyager 1 and voyager 2 have reached interstellar space and each continue their unique journey through the universe. The contents of the record were selected for nasa by a committee chaired by carl sagan of cornell university et. Images voyager took the voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft explored jupiter saturn uranus and neptune before starting their journey toward interstellar space. Voyager 1 image of saturn voyager 1 looked back at saturn on nov.

The images were taken when the spacecraft was about 40 au from the sun 3 7 billion miles or 6 billion kilometers.