Journey Across the Solar System Through the Eyes of the Voyager Probes 

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I remember them building the voyagers when I was a kid. The previous time this alignment occured, Thomas Jefferson was president and he totally blew it. We were nowhere near ready for anything like this, but if we missed the day, we missed it for 176 years, so we took the very best we could make, and went for it. The spacecraft were amazing with the nuclear power and the three computers constantly double checking each others results. It was totally epic. It really felt like we were one species, on our way to greatness

My iPhone 11 Pro Max didn’t even last a full 3 years before it became unusable. Meanwhile voyager 1 and 2 are still kicking out in interstellar space

Thank you for your recitation of Carl Sagan's words about the Pale Blue Dot. He was the scientist that got me so into astronomy as a child.

Pale blue dot and Hubble ultra deep field pictures are among the most iconic ever taken

I’m a Voyage kid! I remember watching the launches with my father and watching the all of the media fanfare around every planetary encounter. I wish my dad was alive to experience the James Webb Space Telescope so the Voyagers will always be my favorite!

I would love a video about what we’ve learned from the voyager probes since the end of their original missions - the fact that they’re out there still chugging along all these years later, still telling us things, and as far from home as any human thing has ever been is so remarkable!

I was pleased to see this upload.....as a kid that grew up in the '80s when Voyager reaching Uranus and Neptune was front page news, I often come back to the Voyager missions and contemplate where they stand among mankind's greatest achievements. In the '90s I remember for the cost of postage writing to NASA and getting the planetary fact sheets back, only to find them changing year after year as we learned more and more about the number of moons, temperatures, and other things about our outer planets.

The Voyager stories are truly fascinating - from that moment when it was realised that there was an alignment, to today when we still keep track of their fate...wishing them on, further and further into our stellar next-door.

The words of Carl Sagan always bring tears to my eyes! Thank you for a wondeful video, and for reminding us how amazing the two Voyagers are!☺️

On short notice a hiking friend nearly canceled a backpacking trip in the canyons of Utah. He had just discovered a moon of Saturn from the Voyager data and needed to stick around for press releases before he left. The last time he had discovered a moon of Saturn he went on vacation and his boss had to field all the press calls. His boss insisted he handle all the calls before vacation. Boulder Mail Trail in the Escalate Canyons.

I'm always happy to see a new video from Astrum! In August of 1977, my first child was six months old the Voyagers were launched. So amazing to me that these two are still going and sending back data. Really gives perspective on the technology used on these craft.

Carl Sagan's soliloquy on the Pale Blue Dot still soothes my soul. 😊 Wonderful video!

I find the journey of Voyager 1 and 2 endlessly fascinating!

I saw the news report of when the lady technician saw the active volcano erupting on Io!! I was a Senior in high school, and I was just gob-smacked, it was so awesome!

The Pale Blue Dot image gives us a great perspective of our space in the universe, but those models of the probes' trajectories give me a whole new perspective on time. Watching the path the probes take along with the date indicator, I see the year of my birth come up, and then my childhood flash by, all on just one segment of Voyager 2's trajectory. Our lives are microscopic and precious on this scale.

these probes have been operating in space since before I was born, and doing amazing science on top of that. I will forever be in awe of the people who put them out there, and will forever mourn their loss when they do finally go dark.

I remember as an 8 year old kid, watching Nova on PBS and oogling all the pictures of the moons of Jupiter. To this day, I still keep up with news on those probes. A small nitpick: the 'Earthrise' photo had been taken by Bill Anders on Apollo 8.

It has recently been "discovered" that Neptune’s true color is nearly identical to that of Uranus. It’s only slightly more blue, so NASA enhanced the photos to make the blue more vibrant

idk how to say it but It was very scared for my exams I saw THE PALE BLUE DOT image And boy did my tention felt small Everything is sooo big in space My worries are meaning less My promise to the outer space and its beauty is Ill never worry about anything past the point it hurts me SPACE IS A W

Voyager 1 & 2's journey is endlessly fascinating to me!

this is the fastest ive ever caught a video, fitting its one of my most loved probes visited by one of my favorite channels, amazing work as always

I would love to go back in time, to bring Sir Isaac Newton to our times - imagine how proud he would be, watching us use his equations to explore the solar system - gobsmacked is an understatement, we only learnt how to fly a 'plane just over 100 years ago - humans are AMAZING!

Thanks Alex, great content as always. Much appreciated.

This video really reaffirms that our planet is not the only one with complex and unique environments. Every planet has unique features that make it so much more apparent that we are here by chance and nothing else

To think how fast we went from the wheel to sending the Voyager probe Interstellar. Truly inspiring.

Your videos are just wonderfull! I enjoy them almost on a daily basis to learn about the universe, relax and improve my english language skills🥰 Thank you for your brilliant work and for sharing your passion with us! Lots of love from Switzerland 💫

glad to see another new astrum video in my recommended 😁

Wonderful presentation, We got something right

Many thanks for this wonderfully put together summation of the Voyager project. There is only ever one project like Voyager and the impact on our understanding of so many fundamental things that now make up our understanding of the universe can never be repeated and will not be fully appreciated unless videos like this are around to mention just how much knowledge was gained. I was in Standard 2 (aka: Year 4) when the Voyagers were launched, with V-1 leaving a week before my 8th birthday. It seemed to me that so many of the milestones achieved by both were to happen around that date over the years too, so I looked forward to my birthday for an extra special reason in that I got to hear about what V-1 or 2 were up to. I remember making models and drawings of the solar system back in 1976 / 77 when the number of moons for each planet were so few and then being shocked to learn of how many more there actually are when the reports started coming in from the Voyager and later probes. It really showed me that we can know only so much when we are stuck on this little world and look out at what's around us and that to really find out, we need to get out there and see. Seeing how long it has taken Voyager to get to the edge of the solar system - let alone beyond - also made the likes of Star Trek suddenly appear very much Sci-Fi....but who knows? In the next couple of hundred years we may indeed be able to create the technology to get out there and see for ourselves what Voyager will be seeing now without it taking half the average human lifetime to do so.

I remember the building and launch of the two Voyagers. I feel lucky to have lived to see all the information and wonderful pictures they have returned. I wish I could live long enough to see people walking around on Mars, but it looks like that will be after I am gone.

Hello Astrum great video you made here about the Voyager probes but I think you made one small mistake at 10:00 by referring to Pioneer 11 as Pioneer 2 (unless this is an informal or formal name for the pioneer probes that flew by the gas giants which is definitely possible) for the Saturn flyby on September 1, 1979.

This is a fine video. I really appreciate the effort that it must’ve taken. Subbed.

I vividly remember seeing the pictures voyager took in science books back when I was in 1st grade. I was amazed thinking that we have already "visited" other worlds and made me realize how we are capable of amazing things if we work together.

Great review - I remember when the Voyagers launched - exciting times! Neptune isn't actually even close to that shade of blue as shown in the popular images; that was covered when the images were first made public so it's never been a secret. People just don't bother to research into what they are shown so they believe Neptune actually looks that blue. Without the enhancement, several features would not be visible to the human eye. It's true color is a very light teal, almost a duplicate of Uranus.

I grew up in Orlando, Florida 35 miles from Kennedy space Center and I was only barely 6 months old when voyager launched… Kind of blows my mind how long ago that was 🤯

One of my Favorite Space Probes, Voyager 1 and 2! 😍 Job well done! 👏 And Thank Youuuu! ❤

The Voyagers are my favorite probes! I was born a few years after launch. I have been following them since 3rd grade or so, luckily a good teacher brought The Voyagers up frequently. Ever since then I have been addicted! 👍🏻🇺🇲

dang! this is so informative! I never knew a lot of the things about these spacecraft. so cool keep up the good work.

nice closing speech man its very touching

I was JUST rewatching the playlist for Our Solar System's Moons. I was so surprised to see a new video in the playlist. Thanks, Astrum!

The voyager probes are amazing feats and I can’t wait to see what we discover next. Amazing stuff.

absolutely amazing videos.great quality as always.I always get emotional watching your videos

It's videos like this that remind me why I've been a fan of Astrum for over 8 years now. 👏🏼👏🏼

Ground News is amazing, but your channel is even more so. Thanks for creating such excellent content.

Your words toward the end of the video are absolutely beautiful.

Alex, this video was breathtaking. Thank you for presenting the splendor of the universe in such a deep and meaningful way.

So excited about this! Please supply info on soundtrack 🙌🏻

5:30 Absolutely gorgeous! I never saw that timelapse before.

Great content sir. Mesmerizing.

Apollo 8 took the moonrise photo.

Aside from the amazing info, that voice is an absolute treat to the ears.

Thank you - wonderfull!

I just got a high power telescope 🔭 and it’s such a beautiful experience to see Jupiter and its moons with your own eyes.

Thanks to your videos,I have Just about travelled over a light year, from the comfort of my bed. I should service it soon, its starting to creak.

I have NASA's Grand Tour poster on my hallway 😎

Watched a short where it said that the voyager was having issues communicating with Earth and it might be its last. Felt fucking sad knowing that marvel is gonna wander in space until hopefully some alien life might come across it.

Not only am I amazed and love space so much, it also terrifies me to my core.

I wish you do more of these longer videos.

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I like to think that in the future we will just pop out there and bring them back to a museum !...cheers.

Its wild that spacecraft were sent out a year before I was born and they are still going, still have enough power to tell us "hi, still here" its remarkable how reliable they designed them. I just wish they had used a fuel with a longer half life so it would have had full power for much longer but they didnt think they would last that long. I always think about when if ever they will "run" into something or if they are just going to keep going, forever.

Completely unrelated to the video but rest in peace the little Mars copter that could, rest in peace ingenuity

Thank you, Alex! 🛰

The picture of the earth rises, and the other with earth and moon literally gives me goosebumps. It's so sad that we'll never get a chance to see that in person

Every single engineer every one who made a screw a circuit the design team should be honoured for building and designing such a fantastic piece of man-made equipment that has filled education books and giving data and information of space and beyond

I love the info the history and the beauty we see for the first time in our solar system. It’s not going to get old it’s only going to get better.

So when the sun burns out, expand and swallows the Earth, Voyager 1&2 will be the only trancelike relic of humankind.

We will indeed never have a mission like Voyager again… the FIRST reconnaissance of the Solar System can only happen once. But in another 100+ years, the outer planets will align again. Perhaps by then we will be ready to send a crewed spacecraft to follow in the Voyagers’ path.

Very excellent video! Thank you for this, I really truly enjoyed every minute. I wish I could be alive when this alignment happens again, to see how far space travel has come by then…

I remember seeing, during the TV broadcasts about the Apollo missions, Carl Sagan described how excited he was about the possibility of sending a probe or probes to take advantage of this rare alignment of the gas giants that would allow for a "Grand Tour" to study them all! I was hooked, and so delighted when the probes actually launched. It was all candy after that! "Earthrise" was from the Apollo 8 mission, first to come around from behind the Moon. As the telegram they received said, "Thank you for saving 1968!"

"In 1977 two pioneers embarked" I think you mean two Voyagers embarked, Pioneers 10 and 11 launched in 72 and 73 :)

Thanks for this great video!

I was 17 in Highschool that year and I remember thinking, I wonder how long they'll send back info, I'm 63 now and it's astonishing to me how long and how far they've gone.

The Voyagers are true wonders. They're the greatest and more inspirational missions of all time. I remember seeing their first pictures and discoveries. It's not possible to explain the feeling. We were seeing new worlds, for the first time. Real worlds that really exist, not impossibly far from us, and which one day we may visit. There's nothing like hearing Carl Sagan talking about them.

I remember reading about these spacecraft and their forays into the depths of our solar system, when I was a youngster in the 90s. Bynthen these space craft were underway the better part of almost three decades!!! And it is STILL somewhat operational, or at least was until very recently My fascination with the solar system and its star planets moons and other minor bodies, and the universe and beyond, started with the excursion the Voyagers undertook. I remember being flabbergasted and shocked that it took 5 years to get from Saturn to Uranus!!! I remember being very humbled by the immensity of the universe, macro and micro, at an early age, and the humility really had an impact on my juvenile outlook on life!!!

Thank you, I love your channel, blessings from México 🥰

I just wanted to know about the "PLANETARY ALIGNMENT". THANKS for all the info

I was born well after the voyagers were sent out into the cosmos, but I think that they are truly some of the greatest achievements we have made as a species. They have and continue to do, incredible work for science and helping us understand our universe

Wow...just wow That was a great video, thanks

Wow this was an absolutely beautiful video❤️

At least I'll never forget how old I am. Both Voyagers launched 5 days to 2 weeks after I was born.

It's a good thing it wasn't one of the Pioneers that encountered that machine planet... then the threat in the first Star Trek movie would have been named P'ner... considerably less Intimidating than V'ger...

Fun fact neptune isnt actually blue more greenish blue

That Planetary alignment happens every 175 years. So it is possible to do a similar mission again. However, the logical thing is to send individual orbital probes to Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, much like Cassini and Juno Mission.

The Voyager Space crafts have been a part of my entire life! They have stopped being machines and more like friends. The recent signal lost is like that friend is in an unexplored land and you didn't know if they were alive let alone okay. Someone summed it up: for just a penny of every taxpayer a year, we got Voyager. It is probably even cheaper now. Regardless pennies well spent!

Very cool! Looking forward to the day the Transformers come across the Voyager probes and the Golden Disks. :P

The quality of this content is superb. Some of my all time favorite educational space videos came right out of this channel. Add this one to the list!

well written, thank you

Thanks for another interesting video Alex. I have some minor criticisms about it though. 1: The Earthrise image was taken by the crew of Apollo 8, not Apollo 11. 2: The Pale Blue Dot image is anything but infamous, it is iconic. If it was 'infamous', it would for some reason have had a bad reputation, which it of course does not. It has a great one. 3: In regards to the video's title, you never explained why such a mission would never happen again. Whilst it will be a very long time until such an opportunity arises again, it will occur some time in the future. Still a good video though.

You are not only an explorer but also a philosopher. Great explanations. Thanks

OK, my inner pedant wants to know if one is talking about the inner workings of a body other than Earth, what descriptive should one use instead of 'geology'? I've already read that similar on Mars would be something like 'areology''. But other planets or moons of other planets, no idea :)

One of the things that has struck me about the planets and moons of our solar system is how different they all are. I have never understood this. They all operate under exactly the same laws of physics so why haven’t they all developed identically? Why are all the moons of Jupiter so different, for instance, some housing great layers of ice and water and some dry as a bone? To someone more qualified in planetary science this may seem like a dumb question, but is there anyone who watches and loves Astrum able to explain this in Laymans terms?

This video is absolutely amazing!

@astrum man, "the grand tour" is such a good series of books, as are all ben bova series.

very goood !!!!!!! But strange that you didnt mention the ' golden record ' that they was carrying to the wastnes of space beyond star system that maybe someday might have be found by someone....

Thus was cool good you at least showed actual photos 👍

This is an episode that stands out within the excellent Astrum channel videos series. Alex, your narration of excellent scripts are a joy to listen to - thank you. The Voyager missions are indeed a tribute to what is best of humankind and our endeavours. Your concluding piece was just perfect as the spacecraft continue beyond our imaginings.

I just love how every space video I've ever watched....no matter how mature the narrator is, there is always a chuckle or a joke about the name of the planet Uranus 😂

Fantastic and awesome Carl Sagen speech-"pale blue dot" I'm glad to be alive in such an amazing knowledge...🌠🌸