The knowledge and wisdom of two deep-space voyagers

posted by John Lampard on Friday, 6 November, 2009 to the comment subset

A summary of the how the two Voyager space probes have expanded our knowledge of the solar system’s outer planets.

How then to summarise Voyager? As Stone observes “I felt that we were all in the tradition of Galileo. He was the first to see the moons of Jupiter and the first to apply an instrument to increase our ability to observe the universe. Voyager is just the latest tool which we as a civilization have managed to devise, and the tool was so powerful that we saw things that nobody had seen before and that nobody had imagined that we could see.”

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