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—— ON THIS DAY ——
AUGUST 20, 1977
Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA
49 years ago
Voyager 2, the NASA spacecraft launched on August 20, 1977, which visited all four giant outer planets and has since traveled into interstellar space carrying a message from Earth.
On August 20, 1977, an unmanned spacecraft named Voyager 2 lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at the start of one of the most ambitious journeys ever attempted. Its mission was to take advantage of a rare alignment of the outer planets, one that occurs only once every couple of centuries, to visit Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in a single grand tour. Its twin, Voyager 1, launched two weeks later on a faster trajectory. Nearly half a century on, both are still traveling, and still speaking to Earth.
The two Voyagers transformed our understanding of the outer solar system. Voyager 2 remains the only spacecraft ever to have flown past Uranus and Neptune, and between them the probes returned the first close-up images of the giant planets and their moons, revealing active volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io, the complex structure of Saturn's rings, and the strange, distant worlds at the edge of the solar system. What had been faint points of light became detailed, astonishing places.
—— MARQUEE EVENT ——
The Voyager Golden Record, the phonograph record carried aboard each Voyager spacecraft, containing sounds, images, music, and greetings from Earth intended for any intelligence that might one day find it.
Each Voyager carried an extraordinary object: a gold-plated phonograph record, curated by a team led by the astronomer Carl Sagan, intended as a message to any intelligent life that might someday encounter it. The Golden Record holds greetings in dozens of languages, sounds of Earth from thunder
to whale song, samples of music from across human cultures, and images encoded to be decipherable by a mind wholly unlike our own. It is a portrait of humanity flung into the void.
The engineering that has kept the Voyagers alive is remarkable. Built with 1970s technology, powered by slowly decaying nuclear batteries, and now billions of miles from home, both spacecraft have far outlasted their planned missions. Their signals, growing ever fainter, take many hours to reach Earth and are received by enormous antennas straining to hear a whisper from the dark.
In the years since their planetary encounters, both Voyagers have crossed into interstellar space, the region beyond the influence of the Sun's solar wind, becoming the first human-made objects to leave the solar system. As their power dwindles, their instruments are being shut down one by one, and eventually they will fall silent. But they will keep drifting among the stars for billions of years, long after the Earth itself has changed beyond recognition, carrying their golden message of a civilization that once looked up and wondered whether anyone was out there.
—— WHY THIS MATTERS ——
Voyager 2 remains the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune. Its grand tour of all four giant planets, made possible by a rare planetary alignment, returned the first close-up views of worlds no probe has visited since. It transformed distant points of light into detailed, astonishing places.
The Golden Record is humanity's message to the cosmos. Each Voyager carries a curated portrait of Earth, its sounds, music, and greetings, intended for any intelligence that might one day find it. It is among the most poignant objects ever made, a bottle cast into an interstellar ocean.
The spacecraft are the farthest human-made objects from home. Having crossed into interstellar space, the Voyagers continue to travel and, for now, to transmit. Built with 1970s technology, they will drift among the stars for billions of years, outlasting almost everything humanity has ever built.
—— THE TAKEAWAY ——
On August 20, 1977, Voyager 2 launched on a grand tour of the outer planets. It is the only craft ever to reach Uranus and Neptune, and it now flies through interstellar space, still faintly transmitting, carrying a golden record of Earth's sounds and greetings into the dark, where it will drift for billions of years.
—— QUOTE OF THE DAY ——
“We cast this message into the cosmos. A billion years from now it may still be intact.”
— President Jimmy Carter, Voyager message, 1977
—— OUR QUIZ OF THE DAY ——
How much do you know about Voyager 2, its grand tour of the outer planets, the Golden Record it carries, and its journey into interstellar space?
