Our Solar System from Voyager

Astronomy Picture of the Day · 1998-05-17 · NASA (public domain)

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Our Solar System from Voyager — APOD for 1998-05-17

After taking spectacular pictures of our Solar System's outer planets, Voyager 1 looked back at six planets to take our Solar System's first family portrait. Here Venus , Earth , Jupiter , Saturn , Uranus , and Neptune , were all visible across the sky. Each, however, was now just a small speck of light , dimmer than many of the stars in the sky. Voyager 1 is only one of four human-made objects to leave our Solar System , the other three being Voyager 2, and Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 .

Astronomy Picture of the Day for 1998-05-17 — image & explanation courtesy of NASA (public domain), mirrored at Tukuk-OS for reading and search convenience.

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