Voyager 1 Took a Family Portrait of Our Solar System
The "Family Portrait" is an image of the Solar System acquired by Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990 from a distance of approximately 6 billion kilometers from Earth. SPACE'S DEEPEST SECRETS http://ww...
========== âªâªNarrator: WITH AN ATMOSPHERE
OF SIMILAR DENSITY TO EARTH'S,IT WAS BELIEVED TITAN MIGHT EVEN
HARBOR PRIMITIVE LIFE.TO FLY PAST TITAN,VOYAGER 1's GRAND TOUR
WOULD HAVE TO BE SACRIFICED.TO VISIT THIS INTRIGUING MOON,
IT NEEDED TO BE PUTON A DIFFERENT PATH,
THROWING IT UP AT AN ANGLE,OUT OF THE PLANE
OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM.BEYOND TITAN,
THERE WOULD BE NO MOREPLANETARY ENCOUNTERS
FOR VOYAGER 1.THERE WAS ONE LAST, SPECIAL TASK
ITS MAKERS ASKED OF IT.BECAUSE IT WAS HIGH
ABOVE THE SOLAR SYSTEMRATHER IN ITS PLANE,
VOYAGER 1 HAD A VIEWOF ALL THE PLANETS
THAT ITS TWIN COULD NEVER HAVE.CARL SAGAN AND CAROLYN PORCO
BEGAN DISCUSSING AN IDEA.VOYAGER WAS GONNA BE
IN A LOCATIONTHAT NO OTHER SPACECRAFT
HAD BEEN BEFORE,EQUIPPED WITH, YOU KNOW,
SOPHISTICATED...
