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title: "Voyager program"
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source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_program"
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category: "reference"
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tags: "science, encyclopedia"
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== Pale Blue Dot ==
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Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a distance of approximately 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU), as part of that day's Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System.
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The Voyager program's discoveries during the primary phase of its mission, including new close-up color photos of the major planets, were regularly documented by print and electronic media outlets. Among the best-known of these is an image of the Earth as a Pale Blue Dot, taken in 1990 by Voyager 1, and popularized by Carl Sagan,
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Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us....The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.... To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
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== See also ==
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== References ==
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== Further reading ==
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Swift, David W. (1997). Voyager Tales. Reston, Va: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. ISBN 978-1-56347-252-7.
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Gallentine, Jay (2009). Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft. Lincoln: U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-2220-5.
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Pyne, Stephen J. (2010). Voyager: Exploration, Space, and the Third Great Age of Discovery. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-311959-3.
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Bell, Jim (2015). The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission. Penguin Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-698-18615-6.
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== External links ==
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NASA sites
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NASA Voyager website
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Voyager Mission status (updated in real time)
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Voyager Spacecraft Lifetime
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NASA Facts – Voyager Mission to the Outer Planets
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Voyager 1 and 2 atlas of six Saturnian satellites, 1984
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JPL Voyager Telecom Manual
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NASA instrument information pages:
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"Voyager instrument overview". Archived from the original on 21 July 2011.
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"CRS – COSMIC RAY SUBSYSTEM". Archived from the original on 3 August 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
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"ISS NA – IMAGING SCIENCE SUBSYSTEM – NARROW ANGLE". NASA. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
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"ISS WA – IMAGING SCIENCE SUBSYSTEM – WIDE ANGLE". Archived from the original on 18 July 2009. Retrieved 29 October 2009.
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"IRIS – INFRARED INTERFEROMETER SPECTROMETER AND RADIOMETER". Archived from the original on 18 July 2009. Retrieved 29 October 2009.
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"LECP – LOW ENERGY CHARGED PARTICLE". Archived from the original on 18 July 2009. Retrieved 29 October 2009.
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"MAG – TRIAXIAL FLUXGATE MAGNETOMETER". Archived from the original on 18 July 2009. Retrieved 29 October 2009.
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"PLS – PLASMA SCIENCE EXPERIMENT". Archived from the original on 18 July 2009. Retrieved 29 October 2009.
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"PPS – PHOTOPOLARIMETER SUBSYSTEM". Archived from the original on 25 August 2009. Retrieved 29 October 2009.
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"PRA – PLANETARY RADIO ASTRONOMY RECEIVER". Archived from the original on 18 July 2009. Retrieved 29 October 2009.
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"PWS – PLASMA WAVE RECEIVER". Archived from the original on 18 July 2009. Retrieved 29 October 2009.
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"RSS – RADIO SCIENCE SUBSYSTEM". Archived from the original on 3 August 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
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"UVS – ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROMETER". Archived from the original on 3 August 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
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Non-NASA sites
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Spacecraft Escaping the Solar System – current positions and diagrams
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NPR: Science Friday 8/24/07 Interviews for 30th anniversary of Voyager spacecraft
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Illustrated technical paper by RL Heacock, the project engineer
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Gray, Meghan. "Voyager and Interstellar Space". Deep Space Videos. Brady Haran.
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PBS featured documentary The Farthest-Voyager in Space
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Voyager image album by Kevin M. Gill |