Voyager Exploration of the Giant Planets

The video discusses the Voyager mission, which took advantage of a unique planetary alignment to explore the outer planets. Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 and 2 used gravitational slingshots to travel to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The mission revealed complex atmospheric activity on Jupiter and unexpected volcanic activity on its moon Io. At Saturn, Voyager discovered intricate ring structures. Voyager 2 continued to Uranus, the only planet rotating on an east-west axis, and Neptune, where it found a partial ring system. Today, the Voyagers are the farthest human-made objects, still in contact with Earth.

What significant discoveries were made by Voyager 1 as it approached Jupiter?

How did Voyager 2's journey differ from that of Voyager 1?