Voyager's journey to the unknown

JOURNEY TOTHE UNKNOWN 3 November 13, 1980 4 February 17, 1998 6 December 13,2010 2 November 13, 1980 5 December 18,2004 Voyager 1 passes the termination shock 7 June 15, 2012 Voyager becomes the farthest Confirmation that the probe has NASA scientists report that Voyager is close to entering interstellar space Voyager passes Jupiter Voyager passes Saturn man-made object from Earth passed the reach of the solar wind 1Soptember 5, 1977 MERCURY EARTH EARTH SATURN Our solar system in detail, left Voyager 1 is thought to be 20bn Voyager 1 launched JUPITER NEPTUNE -.andistravelling at from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to study the planets of Jupiter, Saturn and the outer solar system URANUS PLUTO UB313 O MARS SUN EARTH EARTH 20km per second kilometres from Earth. -SUN VENUS Voyager captures Mimas, one of the moons of Saturn SOLAR SYSTEM SOLARSYSTEM BOW SHOCK A car that left earth at the same time as Voyager and travelled at 70mph would have gone 21 million miles by yesterday - less INTERSTELLAR SPACE (matter that exists between star systema) HELIOSPHERE TERMINATION SHOCK (point where the solar wind slows) (where the edge of our solar system meets outer space) SUN than a third of the way to Mars