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The earth...
...where we live....
... And for now the only planet we know, where life has developed.
The human being is capable of many things.
better or worse has always outdone himself.
And in this video, we will make a tribute to one of the most amazing events of history.
A milestone in space exploration.
almost 39 years ago.
They came two space probes to explore the outer planets of the solar system
We are talking about the Voyager missions.
His mission was to explore the gaseous planets in depth.
They would not be the first probe to reach the outer planets, as and Pioneer 10 probe arrived a few years earlier.
And as they are, the Voyager carry a message from Earth to the stars
For technical issues, Voyager 2 came first Earth
On August 20, 1977
Jupiter direction
and days after the Voyager 1 on September 5, 1977.
After years of soaring through space
Voyager 1 reached Jupiter on March 5, 1979
leaving Earth hundreds of millions of kilometers away
During that time the most spectacular images of the gas giant taken
And its satellites as Io
discovering its enormous volcanic activity
The second probe comes months later, July 9, 1979
and completed the work in Jupiter and its satellites.
Thanks to the gravitational pull of Jupiter Voyager quickly reached Saturn
Voyager 1 on November 12, 1980
and Voyager 2 on August 25, 1981
We studied and photographed the huge planet's ring system
and its many moons, especially one. Titan
Due to the interest of the mission controllers by Titan
Voyager 1 sacrifice their journey to Neptune to get closer to the moon
Titan is the only satellite with atmosphere
and find a good candidate for extraterrestrial life possible
After Voyager 1 leaves Saturn and walk away to the far reaches of the solar system
On the other hand its twin Voyager 2 continue its route to Uranus
arriving on January 24, 1986
and discovering new information about the planet and several unknown moons, one
one that was most surprising Miranda.
On August 25, 1989 Voyager 2 reached Neptune, the last gaseous planet of the solar system
He flew over the largest of its satellites, Triton
And finally the probe leaves the planet to address the limits of the solar system.
On February 1, 1990 the Voyager 1 made an iconic photograph
our planet as seen from the edge of the solar system.
Neither more nor less than more than 6 billion kilometers
Earth is just a pale blue dot in the vastness
demonstrating how insignificant it may become our world.
Currently the two probes left the limits of the solar system
the first objects being manufactured by humans in achieving
and it is expected to continue transmitting information at least until the 2020s.
And when the contact is lost, the Voyager still be left with a mission
hopefully they will get
Bring the disco sounds of the Earth has an extraterrestrial civilization.
This may never happen
and if not it will take a long time
because until they pass near a star can spend tens or even hundreds of thousands of years.
It is something that our generation will not see
and that humanity can neither see
Voyager still have plenty of time ahead
since it is estimated that flow through space for billions of years.