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“Voyager 1: Still Flying After 48 Years, But Where To Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is now the farthest human-made obiect from Earth, drifting through interstellar space at nearly 17 km/s (38,000 mph). In 48 years, it has traveled about 22 light-hours away - yet that’s still just a tiny step compared to the vastness of the universe. Scientists estimate it will take 30,000 years for Voyager 1 to finally cross the outer edge of the Oort Cloud, which some define as the true boundary of our solar sys

Voyager 1 at Jupiter • Red Spot Movie 25.9.2021 • This movie shows the portion of Jupiter around the Great Red Spot as it swirls through more than 60 Jupiter days. Notice the difference in speed and direction of the various zones of the atmosphere. The interaction of the atmospheric clouds and storm shows how dynamic the Jovian atmosphere is. As Voyager 1 approached Jupiter in 1979, it took images of the planet at regular intervals. This sequence is made from 66 images taken once every Jupiter r

• 10 Jovian Days • The Voyager 1 Jupiter Rotation Movie • Ten rotations of Jupiter as captured by the Voyager 1 spacecraft, nearing the end of the observatory phase in February, 1979. Consists of 3,451 frames captured through the narrow-angle camera and a sequence of Orange, Green, and Blue filters. The movement seen in this video is a smoothed and averaged-out representation of the attitude of Voyager's scan platform as it took this sequence. Between 18:31 hours (UTC) on January 30 and 19:27 ho