this video is sponsored by skillshare more about them at the end of the video do you see the pale blue dot in this image that's earth is photographed from NUMBER_TOKEN billion miles this is our planet home to more than NUMBER_TOKEN billion people this incredible picture was shot by voyager NUMBER_TOKEN on february NUMBER_TOKENth NUMBER_TOKEN it was one of the last pictures the spacecraft took before its cameras were shut down permanently today voyager is the farthest man-made object in space at a distance of more than NUMBER_TOKEN billion miles even signals take more than NUMBER_TOKEN hours to get there voyager NUMBER_TOKEN in its twin voyager NUMBER_TOKEN were launched to study the outer planets of the solar system after completing their primary missions these two spacecraft kept going and have now entered interstellar space after more than NUMBER_TOKEN years in space they are still functional and are in contact with nasa via the deep space network so today let's travel with voyager NUMBER_TOKEN and see what the farthest spacecraft from earth saw in its extraordinary journey in space voyager NUMBER_TOKEN was launched on september NUMBER_TOKENth NUMBER_TOKEN from cape canaveral in florida following a comparatively shorter and faster trajectory than its twin voyager NUMBER_TOKEN launched NUMBER_TOKEN days earlier both these probes were launched to take advantage of a planetary alignment that occurs once every NUMBER_TOKEN years this alignment allowed them to study all the four giant planets jupiter saturn uranus and neptune in one go although voyager NUMBER_TOKEN was launched after its twin it exited the asteroid belt before voyager NUMBER_TOKEN and eventually overtook it on december NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN and here began the journey of a never-ending expedition while exploring the solar system voyager NUMBER_TOKEN wrote four beautiful chapters of observations and the protagonist of its first chapter was the biggest planet in our solar system jupiter voyager NUMBER_TOKEN followed a path that took the spacecraft only one and a half years to get to jupiter and eventually in january NUMBER_TOKEN voyager NUMBER_TOKEN sent back its first set of jovian images the images sent by the probe revealed the gas giant's atmosphere to be more turbulent than what was found during the pioneer flybys in NUMBER_TOKEN and NUMBER_TOKEN so on january NUMBER_TOKENth NUMBER_TOKEN voyager NUMBER_TOKEN started taking a picture of jupiter every NUMBER_TOKEN seconds these images were taken for NUMBER_TOKEN hours to generate a colored time lapse movie that depicted NUMBER_TOKEN rotations of jupiter in addition the spacecraft also imaged the four galilean moons out of which the most significant was io voyager NUMBER_TOKEN captured the bizarre yellow orange and brown world with at least eight active volcanoes spewing material into space it has been one of the most breathtaking photos of the most geologically active bodies in the solar system the probe also discovered an unknown thin ring around jupiter along with discovering two new moons of jupiter thebe and metis subsequently after successfully exploring the jovian family voyager NUMBER_TOKEN used jupiter's enormous gravity as a springboard to head towards the protagonists of its next chapter the ringed beauty saturn on november NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN voyager NUMBER_TOKEN became the second spacecraft to visit saturn after its predecessor pioneer NUMBER_TOKEN. while observing saturn's family voyager NUMBER_TOKEN's most exciting target was the planet's largest moon titan the spacecraft passed over titan on november NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN at a range of about NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN miles the images revealed a thick
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