SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -Voyager 1 and 2 were designed to take advantage of a rare planetary alignment to study the outer solar system up close. Voyager 2 targeted Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Like its sister spacecraft, Voyager 2 also was designed to find and study the edge of our solar system.

Detailed explanation-2: -Voyager 1 is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. Voyager 1 discovered a thin ring around Jupiter and two new Jovian moons: Thebe and Metis. At Saturn, Voyager 1 found five new moons and a new ring called the G-ring.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Voyager Planetary Mission The twin spacecraft Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched by NASA in separate months in the summer of 1977 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. As originally designed, the Voyagers were to conduct closeup studies of Jupiter and Saturn, Saturn’s rings, and the larger moons of the two planets.

Detailed explanation-4: -What is the difference between Voyager 1 and 2? Both Voyager spacecraft are identical, though they launched on different dates. Voyager 1 was the first to reach interstellar space, but Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to study all four of the solar system’s giant planets at close range.

Detailed explanation-5: -Voyager 2 remains in contact with Earth through the NASA Deep Space Network.