The Voyager program launched two probes, Voyager 1 and 2, in 1977 to study Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. During their "Grand Tour" of the outer planets, the probes discovered many details about the planets and their moons, such as volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io. After completing their primary mission in 1989, the Voyagers continue their journey into interstellar space, having sent back over a trillion bits of scientific data. They carry a "Golden Record" containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth to any intelligent extraterrestrial entities who may find them.

1. Pablo Andrés Dorado Suárez
VOYAGER PROGRAM

2. HISTORY

3. … ONCE UPON A TIME
• The Voyager program started as an observation mission which launched two space
probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, to take advantage of an unusually convenient planetary
alignment between Saturn – Neptune in the late 70’s and make studies in Jupiter and
Saturn.

5. THE MISSION

6. LAUNCH
• The twin spacecraft Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched by NASA in separate
months in the summer of 1977 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

7. THE PLANETARY VOYAGE (1977-1989)
• They were part of the 70’s “Grand Tour”, which made studies of Jupiter and Saturn, taking
advantage of the “gravitational help” of these planets.
• When this part finishes, they were allowed to keep being listened from the JPL centre in
Pasadena, California.
• With this permission, they were adjusted to fly and study Uranus and Neptune.
• Then they discovered many interesting things that changed the study of space as we
knew it. Some of them are the discover of new satellites, volcanos, a ring system in
Uranus, etc.

8. JUPITER
• The Greatest Voyagers’ discovery was the volcanic structure of
the satellite Io.
• They also saw Jupiter’s magnetosphere, geology, and other
important data to understand its structure
First approach to Jupiter in
1979.
Video of a 60 day Jupiter’s
period

9. SATURN
• While passing behind Saturn (as viewed from Earth), Voyager
2 probed Saturn's upper atmosphere with its radio link to
gather information on atmospheric temperature and density
profiles.
• Voyager 2 found that at the highest pressure levels (seven
kilopascals of pressure), Saturn's temperature was 70 kelvins
(−203 °C), while at the deepest levels measured (120
kilopascals) the temperature increased to 143 K (−130 °C).
• The north pole was found to be 10 kelvins cooler, although
this may be seasonal (see also Saturn Oppositions).

10. URANUS
• The closest approach to Uranus occurred on January 24,
1986, when Voyager 2 came within 81,500 kilometres (50,600
miles) of the planet's cloud tops.
• Voyager 2 also discovered 10 previously unknown moons of
Uranus; studied the planet's unique atmosphere, caused by
its axial tilt of 97.8°; and examined the Uranian ring system.

11. NEPTUNE
• Voyager 2's closest approach to Neptune occurred on August 25,
1989.
• Since this was the last planet of our Solar System that Voyager 2
could visit, the Chief Project Scientist, his staff members, and the
flight controllers decided to also perform a close fly-by of Triton, the
larger of Neptune's 2 originally known moons, so as to gather as
much information on Neptune and Triton as possible, regardless of
what angle that Voyager 2 would fly away from Neptune at.
• This was just like the case of Voyager 1's encounters with Saturn and
its massive moon Titan.

12. THE INTERSTELLAR MISSION (1990)
• With both probes coming out of the solar system, the mission of the voyager program
started calling “The Interstellar Mission”.
• Since this time, the had studied the different effects of the sun in our solar system, looking
for the heliopause.
• When they arrive there, they’ll continue sending information about the interstellar space
(outside our sun’s influence)
• Finally, it’s expected that the RPG’s which give them the energy for their scientific
instruments will be over, with the consequent finish of the mission between 2025 and
2030.

13. SO, WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
• In 2003, Voyager 1 informs that has passed the
solar system’s final frontier
• Then, in 2005, both Voyagers were outside the
sun gas influence and in the heliosheat.
• In 2008, Voyager 2, took this picture of the Milky
Way.
• In 2009, both passed the heliosheat, entering to
the heliopause, the final border of our solar
system.

14. … AND NOW?
• Also, Voyager 1 completed 12,000 days from its launch on
June 28, 2010.
• Actually, they are sending information from outside the solar
system.
NOTE: Until now, they’ve sent more than one trillion bits of
scientific data.

15. Year Date
Voyager 1
Radial Distance
(Million Kms)
Heliographic
Latitude
Heliographic
Rotating Longitude
Heliographic
Inertial Longitude
2010 16 Sept 17,149.90 34.4 34.4 122.6 173.7
Year Date
Voyager 2
Radial Distance
(Million Kms)
Heliographic
Latitude
Heliographic
Rotating Longitude
Heliographic
Inertial Longitude
2010 16 Sept 13,950.00 -29.1 165.9 217.0

16. THE VOYAGER GOLDEN RECORD

17. WHAT’S THAT?
“Pioneers 10 and 11, which preceded Voyager, both carried
small metal plaques identifying their time and place of origin for
the benefit of any other spacefarers that might find them in the
distant future. With this example before them, NASA placed a
more ambitious message aboard Voyager 1 and 2-a kind of
time capsule, intended to communicate a story of our world to
extraterrestrials.”
NASA

18. WHAT’S INSIDE THAT?
• The Voyager’s Golden Record is a 30cm gold-covered
copper phonograph disc, with the title of “The Sounds of
Earth”.
• Inside it, there’s our world history, as well as our culture.
• It has three parts

19. FIRST PART: “GREETINGS FROM EARTH”
• When the playing starts, it begins with a greeting from the
president of the US those years, president Carter.
• Then, there’s a greeting form the General Secretary of the
UN.
• Finally, there are greetings from 55 languages all over the
world

20. SECOND PART: “SOUNDS OF EARTH” AND
“MUSIC FROM EARTH”
• After the greetings, we can hear some daily sounds from
our planet (Remasterized).
• Finally, there’s a little selection of world’s music, such as
Mozart, Beethoven, and actual singers (to 1974).

21. THIRD PART: “SCENES FROM EARTH”

22. THIRD PART: “SCENES FROM EARTH”

23. THIRD PART: “SCENES FROM EARTH”

24. THIRD PART: “SCENES FROM EARTH”

25. THIRD PART: “SCENES FROM EARTH”