Voyager 1 last photo

Space Photo Saturday! Since it launched in 1977, Voyager 1 has traveled more than 11 billion miles at 39,000 miles-per-hour through space. LEARN MORE: bit.ly/Voyger1

Voyager 1 is a 733-kilogram probe launched September 5, 1977. It visited Jupiter and Saturn and was the first probe to provide detailed images of the moons of these planets. Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth, traveling away from both the Earth and the Sun at a relatively faster speed than any other probe.As of September 12, 2013, Voyager 1 is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from the Sun. On August 25, 2012, Voyager 1 became the first human made object to…

See spectacular views of Earth from space by astronauts and spacecraft across the solar system in this SPACE.com gallery.

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"Pale Blue Dot" in original size and color. On February 14, 1990, having completed its primary mission, the Voyager 1 spacecraft was commanded by NASA to turn around and photograph the planets of the solar system. NASA compiled the 60 images of this unique event in a series called "Family Portrait". One of the pictures returned was of Earth, from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles), showing up as a pale blue dot in the grainy photograph you see above; this…

On September 5, 1977, Voyager 1 launched and forever changed our understanding of the solar system.