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VOYAGER MISSION


Credit NASA
The orbits of the Voyager probes.
Credit NASA
One of the Voyager space probes.

Launched in 1977, the Voyager probes reached Jupiter in 1979 and Saturn in 1980. Only Voyager 2 continued to Uranus, reached in 1986, and Neptune in 1989.

The Voyager mission was one of the missions that brought the most extraordinary information on the giant planets and their cortege of satellites. New worlds not yet imagined then were opened to human exploration.