THE VOYAGER MISSION

In 1977, two space crafts, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, left Earth to begin a tour of the four giants of the Solar System: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The journey of the two Voyager probes would take twelve years, ending in 1989, by which time, people on Earth would have had their first opportunities to see close-up images of the four gas giants and their moons. However, the Voyager mission was only made possible because of a rare alignment of the planets. Scientists worked out that, because of the positions of the four planets between 1977 and 1989, getting from Earth to Neptune, passing by Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, could actually be achieved.   

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