Here’s the 7th piece in the series of posters I’m making for my Digital Media Studies Master’s Project. This one is Voyager — and really, it’s Voyager 2 even though I didn’t specify the number. There were two Voyager probes launched a few weeks apart in 1977 to take advantage of some fortuitous alignment of the outer planets. Voyager 1 visited Jupiter and Saturn and recently became the first man-made object to cross from our solar system into interstellar space. Cool, right?
But Voyager 2 took a different path and while slightly slower, it was able to visit all four outer planets in succession — Jupiter in 1979, Saturn in 1981, Uranus in 1986 and Neptune in 1989. It’s still the only spacecraft to have passed by Uranus and Neptune.
I like this one a lot. The only thing I’m not 100% happy with is the text, so I may fiddle with it again down the road but for now, it’s acceptable.
(Previously: Curiosity, Sputnik, New Horizons, Venera, SOHO, Cassini)
Cool
One thing that Voyager 2 was sold on was that it was the once in a lifetime “Grand Tour”, where it could flyby all of those gas giants. Not sure if that’s easy (or you’re willing) to work in somehow
So is it not obvious that the 4 planets here are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune? Or do you just mean it’d be cool to have some “grand tour” text somewhere?
The text somewhere, if it makes sense. That phrase meant a lot in the space community back then.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/09/how-voyager-missions-became-a-grand-tour-solar-system-20139281055101118.html