In the latest shutdown, the cosmic ray subsystem experiment on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle ...

Two decades before it notched that milestone, however, Voyager 1 took one of the most iconic photos in spaceflight history. On Feb. 14, 1990, the probe turned back toward Earth and snapped an ...

"The flight team suspected that Voyager 1’s fault protection system was ... which contain sounds and images from Earth in case extraterrestrial civilizations encounter the probes.

And then Voyager 1 continued on its journey and sent images back from the edge of the solar system. Many of us remember the Pale Blue Dot, a haunting picture of the Earth it took on Feb 14 ...

These iconic images of our planet now include "Blue Marble," "Pale Blue Dot," and "Earthrise." The farthest is from the Voyager 1 spacecraft, which captured Earth from 3.7 billion miles away.

Voyager 1 is so far away from Earth ... The record includes photos of Earth, scientific information and music. The record is carried onboard just in case an alien civilization discovers the ...

The "Pale Blue Dot," or Earth, captured by the Voyager 1 spacecraft. Credit ... a 12-inch gold-plated copper disk containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and ...

Voyager 1 – and its sibling ... it took the famous Pale Blue Dot image that shows the Earth being less than a pixel in size. Those images – taken on Valentine’s Day – were the last ...

Even as more advanced probes were launched from Earth, Voyager 1 continued to reliably enrich ... loaded with an array of sound recordings and images representing humanity’s richness, its ...

In 1990, Voyager 1 transmitted the famous “Pale Blue ... Records,” gold plated copper discs containing sounds and images from Earth that were curated by the astronomer Carl Sagan.

Voyager 1 is now some 15 billion miles away from Earth. Somewhere in the cold interstellar ... a gold-plated copper disk inscribed with sounds and images meant to describe the species that built ...