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This photo of a father and son was included on the Voyager's Golden Record in order to show human emotion--wonder what the aliens would make of it?

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The Voyager flyby caught this gorgeous image of the cracked surface of Europa--all of those grooves and ridges imply the existence of a large ocean below the surface

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This spectacular image from the Voyager shows Jupiter's Great Red Spot--a three-Earth-sized storm system! Makes the snow in NYC seem positively tame.

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A beautiful photo credit to the Voyager! Neptune's gorgeous South Pole

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The Golden record on Voyager contained photos of life on earth--here is the depiction of earthling children!

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Though it looks pretty high-tech, the Voyager's computer is, as Jim Bell says, able to process "80,000 instructions per second—cutting-edge space technology in the mid-1970s, but about a million times slower than the laptop I am using to write this text.”

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A deceptively simple diagram of the very complicated journeys of the Voyagers! Not shown here--the date 2015, which is when Voyager 2 is scheduled to leave our solar system.

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Have you ever wondered what an Earth-rise looks like? This photo from the Voyager gives us an inside look at our planet from afar.

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This is the disk that was sent out into space with the Voyager, filled with Sounds of Earth. From songs to noises of nature, any life form that happened on the Voyager would/could have a sense of what it's like on our little planet.

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Views from the Voyager

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Saturn from the #Voyager #Space #NASA #TheLastFrontier #InterstellarAge

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