Voyager 1
Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 swung past Jupiter and Saturn, then kept going. It is now the farthest spacecraft from Earth, still sending data from interstellar space.
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Video mode matches the film's camera, pace, labels and numbers. Scroll or pinch to zoom and drag to pan; space plays or pauses.
The red line is Voyager 1's path and the white dot ringed in red is the spacecraft. Grey rings are the orbits of Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Planets are drawn far larger than life.
After Saturn, Voyager 1 climbed steeply north, out of the plane of the planets. The camera pulls back as it travels; the corner distance is the true distance from the Sun.
Planet pictures: NASA Visible Earth (Earth) and NASA/JPL-Caltech (Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune maps, and Voyager 2's photo of Uranus for its colour). NASA labels its Saturn and Neptune maps as illustrations.
Positions: NASA JPL Horizons, Voyager 1 (-31). Mission: NASA.