![]() ![]() When Voyager was launched, its primary mission was to visit Jupiter and Saturn. Currently, it has travelled further out into the reaches of space than any other human made object. Even now, with most of its instruments frozen and its radioactive decay pile slowly leaking, Voyager continues to beam back information to Earth. Voyager 1 was constructed to such a high standard of engineering that it is still in operation today, forty years or so after its launch. There, it would began its long and lonely journey towards the edge of the solar system. The seeds for the creation of this image began in 1977, when NASA (the National Aeronautic Space Administration) sent the 722 kilogram Voyager 1 space probe up into orbit. This is an especially crucially reminder with so many social and cultural pressures upon us. ![]() It is an image that provides a fundamentally important lesson about the place and value of humanity. ![]() Yet in this photograph of gauzy dark and spectral lines, once you know what this single speck of light actually is, you realise it is ever so meaningful. ![]()
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