Voyager 2 is a NASA space probe launched from Cape Canaveral about two weeks before its twin, Voyager 1, to explore the outer planets. It took advantage of a rare alignment of the planets to make a grand tour, passing Jupiter in 1979, Saturn in 1981, Uranus in 1986 and Neptune in 1989. It remains the only spacecraft to have visited Uranus and Neptune, and it revealed new moons and rings, the geysers on Neptune's moon Triton and the unusual tilted magnetic fields of the ice giants. In 2018 it crossed the heliopause and entered interstellar space. Like Voyager 1, it carries a golden record with sounds and images of Earth.
Before and after
- 2 July 1977Death of Vladimir Nabokov
- from 23 July 1977 to 23 March 1978Ogaden War
- 16 August 1977Death of Elvis Presley
- 17 August 1977Birth of Thierry Henry
- 20 August 1977Launch of Voyager 2
- 5 September 1977Launch of Voyager 1
- 15 September 1977Birth of Tom Hardy
- 15 September 1977Birth of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- 15 September 1977Publication of The Silmarillion
More in Universe & space
- 4 October 1957Launch of Sputnik 1
- 22 October 1969Discovery of 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
- 14 September 1974Discovery of Leda
- 28 July 1989Discovery of Galatea
- 19 January 2006Launch of New Horizons
- 26 June 2012Discovery of Styx
The era
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