Journey Across the Solar System Through the Eyes of the Voyager Probes

[@astrumspace]

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[@MichaelWinter-ss6lx]

You missed one important fact! While building the Voyagers, they _tricked_ the budget. Isn't that what they always do; You'd say? But it's the perspective ;•) They made much better spacecraft than what the budget actually allowed for. Without any delays! 🚀🏴‍☠️🎸

[@markcynic808]

Is the voice you use AI? It sounds like no accent I've ever heard. A cross between Welsh, Irish and Scandinavian is the best way I can describe it, and no one speaks like that!

[@whitemale6227]

Why are none of my replies coming through?

[@whitemale6227]

What is your views on Willie Soon?

[@whitemale6227]

See his views on ep 62...

[@ninehundreddollarluxuryyac5958]

I remember them building the voyagers when I was a kid. The previous time this alignment occured, Thomas Jefferson was president and he totally blew it. We were nowhere near ready for anything like this, but if we missed the day, we missed it for 176 years, so we took the very best we could make, and went for it. The spacecraft were amazing with the nuclear power and the three computers constantly double checking each others results. It was totally epic. It really felt like we were one species, on our way to greatness

[@Orangenugget7]

What year did it happen?

[@extremechimpout]

@@Orangenugget71878

[@matthewboire6843]

That would have been amazing to be a part of

[@Gaetano.94]

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[@BoxStudioExecutive]

lol Jefferson blew it 😂

[@AurizenDarkstar]

Thank you for your recitation of Carl Sagan's words about the Pale Blue Dot. He was the scientist that got me so into astronomy as a child.

[@sunnyday9688]

Likewise. And now I get to watch video for which my daughter wrote content.

[@aamirrazak3467]

He was a tremendous science communicator who did an amazing job making science relatable and engaging for everyone

[@freeculture]

But he didn't mention the gold discs, also added by the insisting Sagan.

[@johnmann6866]

The pale blue dot. How humanity is everything and nothing in the same shot. Thanks Alex. Much appreciated.

[@FirestormX9]

​@@sunnyday9688what? Your daughter is a writer for Astrum?

[@Kariakas]

Pale blue dot and Hubble ultra deep field pictures are among the most iconic ever taken

[@TheSuperPlayer707]

Indeed. One famous, the other infamous. The Ultra Deep Field amazed us about how big and full of life the universe is, and the Pale Blue Dot chilled down our spines making us remember how small and insignificant we trutly are…

[@Kariakas]

@@TheSuperPlayer707 Humbling either way

[@fiercecamaross]

And forever will be.

[@sheekie127]

Weird they didn't put a camera facing the earth so we could watch it leave earth and then our solar system...... Lol 😅

[@wailingalen]

Yes!!!! I agree, both Pale Blue Dot and Ultra Deep Field, both very humbling yet awe inspiring!!!!!

[@Knight_of_NI]

I’m a Voyage kid! I remember watching the launches with my father and watching the all of the media fanfare around every planetary encounter. I wish my dad was alive to experience the James Webb Space Telescope so the Voyagers will always be my favorite!

[@constancevigilance8696]

I am also. And it was so interesting to watch those two Voyager probes during our livetimes. What's more interesting?

[@freeculture]

Supposedly the next Space Telescope (similar but larger than JWST) will be called Carl Sagan. We will see...

[@Knight_of_NI]

@@freeculture Well I hope it makes “billions and billions” of new discoveries 😂😉😂

[@shutout951]

When I was a kid all the information from the Voyager missions was in textbooks like dictionary entries. It's crazy that when I was a kid, we looked at this information the same way we thought about grass being green. It's crazy that Congress wouldn't have funded it

[@Knight_of_NI]

@@shutout951 Agree 100%

[@christopherjohnson2171]

I was pleased to see this upload.....as a kid that grew up in the '80s when Voyager reaching Uranus and Neptune was front page news, I often come back to the Voyager missions and contemplate where they stand among mankind's greatest achievements. In the '90s I remember for the cost of postage writing to NASA and getting the planetary fact sheets back, only to find them changing year after year as we learned more and more about the number of moons, temperatures, and other things about our outer planets.

[@littlefurrow2437]

Remember that BBC series called, "The Planets"? Man, I watched that with my mouth agape and bought it on DVD years later to watch over and over.

[@lexi6063]

I would love a video about what we’ve learned from the voyager probes since the end of their original missions - the fact that they’re out there still chugging along all these years later, still telling us things, and as far from home as any human thing has ever been is so remarkable!

[@douglasstrother6584]

I'd like to see the data indicating they passed through the Heliopause.

[@noiburg8866]

My iPhone 11 Pro Max didn’t even last a full 3 years before it became unusable. Meanwhile voyager 1 and 2 are still kicking out in interstellar space

[@LogicLegionnaire]

And my S20 ultra didn’t even work for 2 years before its battery popped, seriously voyager is great

[@wolfmarine6780]

Makes you wonder how lifespan and telecommunications are possible given the capabilities we have 50 years later.

[@Zeeangelofdeath]

@@wolfmarine6780that’s because they were giving top priority with parts and modern tech at the time. No mater what phone you have, by the time you buy it, the new one is already being manufactured. Also they hold back on tech to upsell the next generation.

[@RagnAR-15]

@@LogicLegionnaireNasa still uses the CPU from Playstation 1s to power certain things on probes. Things today just aren’t as reliable as they use to be. Nasa even said the reason they use it is because they need reliability

[@mr.shin.5138]

​@RagnAR-15 you're reasoning is awfully nice, isn't it more accurate to say that things manufactured today are by DESIGN made to fail in order for people to purchase more, take smartphones as an example.

[@saintuk70]

The Voyager stories are truly fascinating - from that moment when it was realised that there was an alignment, to today when we still keep track of their fate...wishing them on, further and further into our stellar next-door.

[@haninditabudhi6574]

I read that Voyager 1 got a computer glitch that occur these past few months. Hopefully the glitch can be resolved soon 🙏🏻👍

[@saintuk70]

@@haninditabudhi6574 Yeah, they managed to regain contact with it.

[@SolaceEasy]

On short notice a hiking friend nearly canceled a backpacking trip in the canyons of Utah. He had just discovered a moon of Saturn from the Voyager data and needed to stick around for press releases before he left. The last time he had discovered a moon of Saturn he went on vacation and his boss had to field all the press calls. His boss insisted he handle all the calls before vacation. Boulder Mail Trail in the Escalate Canyons.

[@nicholashylton6857]

Carl Sagan's soliloquy on the Pale Blue Dot still soothes my soul. 😊 Wonderful video!

[@lealoo6287]

I'm always happy to see a new video from Astrum! In August of 1977, my first child was six months old the Voyagers were launched. So amazing to me that these two are still going and sending back data. Really gives perspective on the technology used on these craft.

[@sauhamm3821]

In Avgust of 1977, I was 6 months old 🥹

[@admusik99]

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[@naguleader]

The Pale Blue Dot image gives us a great perspective of our space in the universe, but those models of the probes' trajectories give me a whole new perspective on time. Watching the path the probes take along with the date indicator, I see the year of my birth come up, and then my childhood flash by, all on just one segment of Voyager 2's trajectory. Our lives are microscopic and precious on this scale.

[@SpaceUnfiltered]

I find the journey of Voyager 1 and 2 endlessly fascinating!

[@w3toys]

[@Justanotherwomanonyoutube7402]

Me too 🥰🌌🌍

[@just_kos99]

I saw the news report of when the lady technician saw the active volcano erupting on Io!! I was a Senior in high school, and I was just gob-smacked, it was so awesome!

[@arunps7719]

Absolutely love IO

[@stoobydootoo4098]

I saw the news that day ... oh boy.

[@MarcusWolfWanders]

these probes have been operating in space since before I was born, and doing amazing science on top of that. I will forever be in awe of the people who put them out there, and will forever mourn their loss when they do finally go dark.

[@OctorokSushi]

Makes me feel so thankful there were so many smart, hard working people who figured out there would be this alignment and took advantage of it. Because of that we got to see things no other human has seen before, it's so incredible! To think how many people have existed on earth before me and how most of them never got to see these things, even the most wealthy kings and queens couldn't get the privilege. But I do simply for being born in the right place at the right time to witness the effort and achievements of people amazing enough to make missions like this possible. What an absolute blessing.

[@padawanmage71]

I remember as an 8 year old kid, watching Nova on PBS and oogling all the pictures of the moons of Jupiter. To this day, I still keep up with news on those probes. A small nitpick: the 'Earthrise' photo had been taken by Bill Anders on Apollo 8.

[@scottrackley4457]

You're correct on the Earthrise photo, I had a poster of it in my bedroom as a kid. I was 6 when they launched and my and my uncle kept close watch. I got to live to see New Horizons launched and we completed the solar system that I was taught. Pluto is a planet and I'll die on that hill and my mnemonic device. My Very Early Mule Just Said Up Nerd Person!

[@3bingust]

This video really reaffirms that our planet is not the only one with complex and unique environments. Every planet has unique features that make it so much more apparent that we are here by chance and nothing else

[@crayblues8244]

I watched this video back in 2019 and it improved my life perspective at that time. 5 years go by and now I'm in college still struggling from the effects of the pandemic and I came by this video for the second time. It reminded me that everything will be alright. As the voyager ventured into the space despite the harsh conditions, I shall venture into this world as well and discover what might not be in existence if I just stayed still because of fear.

[@ujjita7350]

this is the fastest ive ever caught a video, fitting its one of my most loved probes visited by one of my favorite channels, amazing work as always

[@0ptic0p22]

idk how to say it but It was very scared for my exams I saw THE PALE BLUE DOT image And boy did my tention felt small Everything is sooo big in space My worries are meaning less My promise to the outer space and its beauty is Ill never worry about anything past the point it hurts me SPACE IS A W

[@mistag3860]

I would love to go back in time, to bring Sir Isaac Newton to our times - imagine how proud he would be, watching us use his equations to explore the solar system - gobsmacked is an understatement, we only learnt how to fly a 'plane just over 100 years ago - humans are AMAZING!

[@bigsarge2085]

Voyager 1 & 2's journey is endlessly fascinating to me!

[@koolxxxyear]

This video sure took me deep into the universe, far far away from home. Like back to the nature where it’s always evolving, No greed, no fight, no evil & just timeless. If that’s the eternal life, I’ll take it. Thank you to all the scientists who continuously bring us the new fantastic new frontier in space. Thank you for this program and video.

[@reedlheureux7466]

It has recently been "discovered" that Neptune’s true color is nearly identical to that of Uranus. It’s only slightly more blue, so NASA enhanced the photos to make the blue more vibrant

[@kelly-bo-belly]

Yeah, what was an enhanced picture to show detail became planet lore. Lol. Glad someone caught that and challenged it to make the corrections.

[@acrobizer1238]

So when the sun burns out, expand and swallows the Earth, Voyager 1&2 will be the only trancelike relic of humankind.

[@flaviusbelisarius932]

No.

[@kylesmith8934]

There’s others. Pioneer, new horizon, mars rovers, Hubble telescope, Kepler telescope, Webb telescope.

[@acrobizer1238]

@@kylesmith8934 Very true. Just was thinking in terms of that it is intentional snail mail.

[@serhulk0737]

If we destroy ourselves before that, yes, but if we are still around by then we will have probably colonized multiple star systems

[@dnakatomiuk]

Every single engineer every one who made a screw a circuit the design team should be honoured for building and designing such a fantastic piece of man-made equipment that has filled education books and giving data and information of space and beyond

[@briansmith9439]

Great review - I remember when the Voyagers launched - exciting times! Neptune isn't actually even close to that shade of blue as shown in the popular images; that was covered when the images were first made public so it's never been a secret. People just don't bother to research into what they are shown so they believe Neptune actually looks that blue. Without the enhancement, several features would not be visible to the human eye. It's true color is a very light teal, almost a duplicate of Uranus.

[@milosterwheeler2520]

I remember the building and launch of the two Voyagers. I feel lucky to have lived to see all the information and wonderful pictures they have returned. I wish I could live long enough to see people walking around on Mars, but it looks like that will be after I am gone.

[@MichaelWinter-ss6lx]

Though things could speed up a bit after 2027, when several nuke engines start orbital testing. 🚀🏴‍☠️🎸

[@catfunt5583]

We will stand on your shoulders my friend

[@koromebi7385]

glad to see another new astrum video in my recommended 😁

[@Neearle]

Thanks!

[@JohnnyNiteTrain]

It's videos like this that remind me why I've been a fan of Astrum for over 8 years now. 👏🏼👏🏼

[@suchenundfinden]

Your videos are just wonderfull! I enjoy them almost on a daily basis to learn about the universe, relax and improve my english language skills🥰 Thank you for your brilliant work and for sharing your passion with us! Lots of love from Switzerland 💫

[@scythe4277]

I grew up in Orlando, Florida 35 miles from Kennedy space Center and I was only barely 6 months old when voyager launched… Kind of blows my mind how long ago that was 🤯

[@thedarkestowl4224]

Grew up on the space coast! Remember the earliest shuttle launches!

[@danielprout8987]

Wonderful presentation, We got something right

[@dbell1016]

Thanks!

[@ZMAN_420]

The Voyagers are my favorite probes! I was born a few years after launch. I have been following them since 3rd grade or so, luckily a good teacher brought The Voyagers up frequently. Ever since then I have been addicted! 👍🏻🇺🇲

[@netheriteingot4199]

Hello Astrum great video you made here about the Voyager probes but I think you made one small mistake at 10:00 by referring to Pioneer 11 as Pioneer 2 (unless this is an informal or formal name for the pioneer probes that flew by the gas giants which is definitely possible) for the Saturn flyby on September 1, 1979.

[@astrumspace]

Ahhh I just misread Pioneer 11 as Pioneer II, doh 🫣

[@kelly-bo-belly]

Too funny. This is essentially what happened with Neptune being mis-colored to a darker blue. It was a note in the margins saying that the color was enhanced artificially, but that became it’s planetary lore.

[@KiwiStag74]

Many thanks for this wonderfully put together summation of the Voyager project. There is only ever one project like Voyager and the impact on our understanding of so many fundamental things that now make up our understanding of the universe can never be repeated and will not be fully appreciated unless videos like this are around to mention just how much knowledge was gained. I was in Standard 2 (aka: Year 4) when the Voyagers were launched, with V-1 leaving a week before my 8th birthday. It seemed to me that so many of the milestones achieved by both were to happen around that date over the years too, so I looked forward to my birthday for an extra special reason in that I got to hear about what V-1 or 2 were up to. I remember making models and drawings of the solar system back in 1976 / 77 when the number of moons for each planet were so few and then being shocked to learn of how many more there actually are when the reports started coming in from the Voyager and later probes. It really showed me that we can know only so much when we are stuck on this little world and look out at what's around us and that to really find out, we need to get out there and see. Seeing how long it has taken Voyager to get to the edge of the solar system - let alone beyond - also made the likes of Star Trek suddenly appear very much Sci-Fi....but who knows? In the next couple of hundred years we may indeed be able to create the technology to get out there and see for ourselves what Voyager will be seeing now without it taking half the average human lifetime to do so.

[@Alex_Iope]

I vividly remember seeing the pictures voyager took in science books back when I was in 1st grade. I was amazed thinking that we have already "visited" other worlds and made me realize how we are capable of amazing things if we work together.

[@MaxFromSydney1]

This is a fine video. I really appreciate the effort that it must’ve taken. Subbed.

[@cwstad]

Thanks Alex, great content as always. Much appreciated.

[@TudorSicaru]

There's a single word that can describe the "Pale Blue Dot" photo - "sublime"

[@LDSG_A_Team]

I was JUST rewatching the playlist for Our Solar System's Moons. I was so surprised to see a new video in the playlist. Thanks, Astrum!

[@toasternova]

How tf

[@junkyardspecial9608]

Do they look real , unlike this ? 😆

[@mimimartinne2414]

One of my Favorite Space Probes, Voyager 1 and 2! 😍 Job well done! 👏 And Thank Youuuu! ❤

[@peanutcarts681]

Alex, this video was breathtaking. Thank you for presenting the splendor of the universe in such a deep and meaningful way.

[@DavidMbuta-b6w]

The scientific achievement of this magnitude back in 70s just tells you how those engineers were brilliant, more than 40 years and the voyagers are still exploring some unimaginable distances 'on the planned trajectory ' , especially knowing the right time to launch as the big gas giants alignment... it's crazy

[@nathanddrews]

Ground News is amazing, but your channel is even more so. Thanks for creating such excellent content.

[@joeh2236]

The Pale Blue Dot photo still blows my mind everytime I see it. It's beyond amazing.

[@Yezpahr]

5:30 Absolutely gorgeous! I never saw that timelapse before.

[@nissanzenkiboy]

I just got a high power telescope 🔭 and it’s such a beautiful experience to see Jupiter and its moons with your own eyes.

[@chimchu3232]

What did you get? I have a 5 inch newtonian, haven't got a chance to see Jupiter yet, but I observed saturn a couple times

[@kristhemanc87]

What a video!! Absolutely brilliant mate. Love getting my mind blown.

[@Ericaodd]

It's a good thing it wasn't one of the Pioneers that encountered that machine planet... then the threat in the first Star Trek movie would have been named P'ner... considerably less Intimidating than V'ger...

[@bankrollfresh69]

Hey Alex or anyone watching, what is the background soundtrack playing at 24:37 ? Would really appreciate answer🙏

[@viewbens]

nice closing speech man its very touching

[@cliffb1]

Thanks for another interesting video Alex. I have some minor criticisms about it though. 1: The Earthrise image was taken by the crew of Apollo 8, not Apollo 11. 2: The Pale Blue Dot image is anything but infamous, it is iconic. If it was 'infamous', it would for some reason have had a bad reputation, which it of course does not. It has a great one. 3: In regards to the video's title, you never explained why such a mission would never happen again. Whilst it will be a very long time until such an opportunity arises again, it will occur some time in the future. Still a good video though.

[@lukestarkiller1470]

Lots of people don’t understand the difference between the words infamous and famous. But what I think he meant by us not ever having a mission like that again (other than clickbait) is that we learned so much information we never knew from the voyager missions so any future missions may not be as impact because there will probably be a lot less surprises

[@Hobbes746]

After the Voyagers, we switched to missions where we sent a spacecraft to one planet to observe it in detail for years. The Voyagers could only look at each planet for a few days.

[@karimmaasri1723]

Aside from the amazing info, that voice is an absolute treat to the ears.

[@letsgobulls24]

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[@LatteLover]

I have NASA's Grand Tour poster on my hallway 😎

[@rex9412]

I'm jealous

[@bend96]

Watched a short where it said that the voyager was having issues communicating with Earth and it might be its last. Felt fucking sad knowing that marvel is gonna wander in space until hopefully some alien life might come across it.

[@nicholashylton6857]

Don't feel sad. The Voyager, Pioneer, and New Horizons probes will be out there long after our species has vanished.

[@udtheaesir]

Just a matter of time before the Transformers will come across the probes and learn about us from the Golden Disks onboard. :P

[@Yami-Diablo]

​@@nicholashylton6857unless they hit a rock

[@ireallylikedoingstuff]

dang! this is so informative! I never knew a lot of the things about these spacecraft. so cool keep up the good work.

[@rogersimpson9725]

I was 16 years old when I went to college. Everyone else in my class was still in high school. My favorite class was space science. That was in 1979. And the crazy thing is that I learned all of this stuff in that class. But the thing I didn't realize was how new this information was at the time!. I guess I owe everything to the voyagers! My space science book was the most expensive book I ever had to buy. It was 35.00! That was a lot of money back then.

[@JJ-Schmidt]

Not only am I amazed and love space so much, it also terrifies me to my core.

[@matthewboire6843]

The voyager probes are amazing feats and I can’t wait to see what we discover next. Amazing stuff.

[@nicowest]

Your words toward the end of the video are absolutely beautiful.

[@andymouse]

I like to think that in the future we will just pop out there and bring them back to a museum !...cheers.

[@johnshields6852]

I was 17 in Highschool that year and I remember thinking, I wonder how long they'll send back info, I'm 63 now and it's astonishing to me how long and how far they've gone.

[@kathleenlovett1958]

I just wanted to know about the "PLANETARY ALIGNMENT". THANKS for all the info

[@zizimugen4470]

23:16 “…the infamous pale blue dot.” No, the famous pale blue dot. Very different meanings.

[@_dbzeibert_1718]

Yeah, that irked me too. I still admire Alex, though.

[@zizimugen4470]

@@_dbzeibert_1718 for sure, astrum is still insightful irregardless of that. 🤷😜

[@Tallorian]

It caught my attention as well, but I'm not a native speaker. Could it be that native speakers actually don't see them as strictly opposite in meaning as other people do? It's not the first time I hear people from the UK mix these two words.

[@zizimugen4470]

@@Tallorian don’t think too much on it. Americans call a certain device a “hot water heater” as if hot water needs to be heated. They (though I’m a citizen as well) also say “irregardless,” “close proximity,” and at least 3/4ths of Americans who say a word that ends in “ist” or “ism” can’t define that word without looking it up (and then it’s not the definition they wanted). Most of us don’t even know the difference between a hypothesis and a theory. 😕

[@Sals-Clips]

I love how this voyager is still out there after damn near 50 years. This was in 1977. Imagine what we can do now in 2024 with a more modern Voyager.

[@InternationalScoutIIHarvester]

The greatest thing that could happen in the coming years would be the ability to travel faster and farther than believed possible and easily pick both Voyagers up and put them in a museum.

[@douggoins2960]

The pale blue dot image really drives home how utterly insignificant we are as a species. A small blue dot against the blackness of the cosmos. The universe is truly mesmerizing. One day, i hope that we are able to overcome our limitations and traverse the stars. I can only imagine the sights that are out there that we dont even know about. Im sure there are other civilizations out there too. Maybe one day, we will interact on a galactic scale with these civilizations

[@drinkxyz]

Very cool. But FYI Neptune doesn't have a blue appearance. People just think it does because false color images were released by the voyager team to highlight weather activity. Neptune looks milky white like Uranus.

[@GibSeed]

Its incredible to see that a device we made almost 50 years ago was at such quality and was able to last as long as it did. Insane

[@karhukivi]

VHF radios were available then and still work. The technology was good enough for Concorde then too. I used computers in university in 1968, we were not all running around in loin-cloths and grubbing for nuts and berries! (actually, a few of us were)

[@hua25-18]

absolutely amazing videos.great quality as always.I always get emotional watching your videos

[@johnbeckman492]

Apollo 8 took the moonrise photo.

[@laelcase8588]

Not the one featured in the video, but they did take a few as well 👍

[@NoOne-fo1di]

The picture of the earth rises, and the other with earth and moon literally gives me goosebumps. It's so sad that we'll never get a chance to see that in person

[@cherriberri8373]

2:20 you should start correcting your colors for Neptune when possible! It's basically the same as Uranus in color

[@phenomagator]

The quality of this content is superb. Some of my all time favorite educational space videos came right out of this channel. Add this one to the list!

[@DrXenolan]

We will indeed never have a mission like Voyager again… the FIRST reconnaissance of the Solar System can only happen once. But in another 100+ years, the outer planets will align again. Perhaps by then we will be ready to send a crewed spacecraft to follow in the Voyagers’ path.

[@justadildeau]

Yeah, send the crew out into the void without return or destination. Sounds probable.

[@twelved4983]

Aren’t the Neptune pictures way too enhanced? I thought I heard recently that the Neptune pictures make it way too blue and saturated, and that it actually looks much closer to Uranus in terms of color. Ofc this is a major deal if so, so I’m not sure how well to trust that claim.

[@cherriberri8373]

Yep! NASA purposefully made the images of Neptune more blue. But it was never meant to be a lie, they said they changed the color, it was just to make the two planets appear more different. But then, over time that sidenote got lost and people who grew up thinking it just WAS in fact blue started working at places like NASA and interpreting data from telescopes like The Very Large Telescope and the Hubble. Thus, the images the produced from the data was more blue than it should be! It's not a super big deal, but a shame slip ups like that can happen.

[@darthrainbows]

Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot is the single greatest quote ever uttered by a human being in the history of our species.

[@theawecat27]

aw i understand it was kind of recent, but have you seen the new findings that neptune is in fact not blue like we've thought it was? it turns out both uranus and neptune are very similar chemically and in color! it's turned out to be a myth that neptune is blue because of methane, from people trying to explain the color edited photos we have of it 20:00

[@wailingalen]

I remember reading about these spacecraft and their forays into the depths of our solar system, when I was a youngster in the 90s. Bynthen these space craft were underway the better part of almost three decades!!! And it is STILL somewhat operational, or at least was until very recently My fascination with the solar system and its star planets moons and other minor bodies, and the universe and beyond, started with the excursion the Voyagers undertook. I remember being flabbergasted and shocked that it took 5 years to get from Saturn to Uranus!!! I remember being very humbled by the immensity of the universe, macro and micro, at an early age, and the humility really had an impact on my juvenile outlook on life!!!

[@brandonrich6342]

Wow this was an absolutely beautiful video❤️

[@mcwakefield]

I love the info the history and the beauty we see for the first time in our solar system. It’s not going to get old it’s only going to get better.

[@davidca96]

Its wild that spacecraft were sent out a year before I was born and they are still going, still have enough power to tell us "hi, still here" its remarkable how reliable they designed them. I just wish they had used a fuel with a longer half life so it would have had full power for much longer but they didnt think they would last that long. I always think about when if ever they will "run" into something or if they are just going to keep going, forever.

[@_apsis]

they’ll likely just keep going forever, either remaining in orbit of the milky way or being ejected likely during the milky way’s collision with andromeda

[@IroAppe]

I recommend the article "Scientists' predictions for the long-term future of the Voyager Golden Records will blow your mind", it goes over all the challenges, the danger of erosion of the gold plates through dust clouds, and the probability of being ejected during the merger with Andromeda.

[@justinspriggs2979]

i would love to know the time difference between earth and both Voyager computers. Kinda random but that stuff interests me a lot. Considering how far out theyve gone they'd be the only real world examples of what space travel would be like just in relation to crew time and earth time

[@lorensims4846]

I remember seeing, during the TV broadcasts about the Apollo missions, Carl Sagan described how excited he was about the possibility of sending a probe or probes to take advantage of this rare alignment of the gas giants that would allow for a "Grand Tour" to study them all! I was hooked, and so delighted when the probes actually launched. It was all candy after that! "Earthrise" was from the Apollo 8 mission, first to come around from behind the Moon. As the telegram they received said, "Thank you for saving 1968!"

[@wickedchandy]

What a video, absolutely amazing and recitation of Carl Sagan's words about the pale blue dot just brought back so many memories and the depth of these words will stand the test of time.

[@Skyloftt]

I appreciate the last dialogue about cherishing one another on our blue dot 😊

[@naciremasti]

In 2011, Neptune made It's first orbit since it's discovery in 1846..so its only 13 years into its 165 year orbit. If there's another planet out there it's orbits gotta be pushing 200 year's I'd imagine.

[@cassinipanini]

bro you cant just hit me with the pale blue dot speech, i wasnt emotionally prepared

[@aamirrazak3467]

I was born well after the voyagers were sent out into the cosmos, but I think that they are truly some of the greatest achievements we have made as a species. They have and continue to do, incredible work for science and helping us understand our universe

[@Slay_and_Play]

These two spacecrafts are legit the most fascinating inventions we’ve created. It legit still baffles me how we’re able to communicate with it from such a distance. Bring that technology over to cell towers!

[@lasersailor6684]

One of the things that has struck me about the planets and moons of our solar system is how different they all are. I have never understood this. They all operate under exactly the same laws of physics so why haven’t they all developed identically? Why are all the moons of Jupiter so different, for instance, some housing great layers of ice and water and some dry as a bone? To someone more qualified in planetary science this may seem like a dumb question, but is there anyone who watches and loves Astrum able to explain this in Laymans terms?

[@audreyhicks6169]

I just love how every space video I've ever watched....no matter how mature the narrator is, there is always a chuckle or a joke about the name of the planet Uranus 😂

[@bloqk16]

The precision for Voyager to reach Neptune as close as it did, for the billions of kilometers it is from Earth, is mind-blowing. It would be akin to using an eye-dropper instrument, and from the height of a thousand feet above ground, release a single drop of water to hit a playing card on the ground.

[@thisisbossi]

I like that the renderings of Jupiter show it with bright crisp edges; the way my brain WANTS it to be. Actual photos of Jupiter, with the darkened ring around the periphery, is all the more majestically terrifying to me.