Voyager 1 - Blog Posts
Hello From the Children of Planet Earth - Submitted by @nookisms
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Reference images: Cosmic Latte, Nebra Sky Disk, Voyager Golden Record
f you humanifies your space probes
voyager 1 (left) and voyager 2 (right)!! no they are not gay they are brothers :D
Pale Blue Dot
From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known, so far, to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
- Carl Sagan
photographed from Voyager 1 six billion kilometers out (beyond Pluto).
Carl Sagan - Solğun Mavi nöqtə.
Bu nöqtəyə bir də baxın,ora evimizdir.O bizik.Sevdiyimiz və tanıdığımız,adını eşitdiyimiz,yaşayan və ölmüş hərkəs ordadır.Bütün sevincimizin və kədərimizin cəmi,minlərcə bir-birini yalanlayan din,ideologiya və iqtisadi doktrin,insanlıq tarixi boyunca yaşayan hər ovçu və toplayıcı,hər qəhrəman və qorxaq,hər mədəniyyət qurucusu və dağıdıcısı ,hər kral və əkinci,hər aşiq çütlük,hər ana və ata,ümid dolu uşaq,ixtiraçı,kəşfiyyatçı ,əxlaq müəllimi,rüşvətxor siyasətçi,hər superstar,hər ulu öndər,hər müqəddəs və günahkar onun üzərində,bir günəş şüasının üzərində asılı olan o toz zərrəsindədir. Kainatın sonsuzluğu qarşısında dünya çox kiçik bir səhnədir.Bütün o general və imperatorlar tərəfindən axıdılan qan göllərini düşünün,qazandıqları zəfərlərlə bir toz dənəsinin bir anlıq ağası oldular.O zərrənin bir küncündə oturanların başqa bir küncündən gələn və özlərinə bənzəyən başqaları tərəfindən uğradıqları bitməz,tükənməz əziyyətləri düşünün,birbirlərini öldürmək üçün nə qədər də həvəsli idilər,bir birlərindən necə də nifrət edirdilər. Təkəbbürümüz,özümüzə verdiyimiz önəm,kainatda xüsusi yerimiz olduğu haqda olan düşüncəmiz,hamısı bu solğun ışıq nöqtəsi tərəfindən yox edilir.Planetimiz kainatın qaranlığında yalnız bir toz zərrəsidir.Bu möhtəşəm boşluq içində bizi bizdən xilas edəcək heçkim yoxdur. Dünya,üzərində həyat olduğunu bildiyimiz tək planetdir.Ən azından yaxın gələcəkdə gedəbiləcəyimiz başqa yer yoxdur.Ziyarət edəbilərik,amma hələki orda həyat qura bilmərik.Bəyənsəniz də bəyənməsəniz də hələki dünya sığınabiləcəyimiz tək yerdir. Astronomiyanın insanı daha təvazökar olmağa məcbur edən və şəxsiyyət qazandıran bir təcrübə olduğu deyilir.Bəlkə də insanın təkəbbürünün nə qədər mənasız olduğunu bundan daha yaxşı göstərən bir şəkil yoxdur.Məncə birbirimizə daha yaxşı davranma öhdəliyimizi vurğulayır və bu mavi nöqtəyə,evimizə.
Voyager 1 color-enhanced image of Saturn taken on October 18, 1980, 25 days before closest approach.
Shhh... they're communicating
Your voyager 2 design has been bouncing around in my brain. May I know more about them? :33
Absolutely! Due to the missions' nature, I've characterised both Voyager probes as peaceful, enlightened, and a little esoteric with a love for music and the universe.
Design wise, V2's clothing is based on the Little Prince (due to some parallels with the mission) as well as bunny suits (yes they're called that), they were more lax with the cleanroom regulations back in the day so it's just a hat and coat. I made it black in my design to match the spacecraft's tarp.
They have blue eyes as a reference to the Pale Blue Dot image but I'm quickly realising it doesn't make much sense given that the image was taken by V1 and not 2, so I may change it to whatever the colour of V2's final image was in the future.
Real OGs will remember how both my Voyager designs were radically different from one another where one was designed upside down and the other rightside up; it was to reflect the spacecrafts' almost opposite trajectories but it was sorta a split second decision on my part back then haha.
🌎 A pale blue dot.
SPACECRAFT
The heliosphere is the bubble-like region of space dominated by the Sun, which extends far beyond the orbit of Pluto. Plasma “blown” out from the Sun, known as the solar wind, creates and maintains this bubble against the outside pressure of the interstellar medium, the hydrogen and helium gas that permeates the Milky Way Galaxy. The solar wind flows outward from the Sun until encountering the termination shock, where motion slows abruptly. The Voyager spacecraft have explored the outer reaches of the heliosphere, passing through the shock and entering the heliosheath, a transitional region which is in turn bounded by the outermost edge of the heliosphere, called the heliopause. The shape of the heliosphere is controlled by the interstellar medium through which it is traveling, as well as the Sun and is not perfectly spherical. The limited data available and unexplored nature of these structures have resulted in many theories. The word “heliosphere” is said to have been coined by Alexander J. Dessler, who is credited with first use of the word in the scientific literature.
On September 12, 2013, NASA announced that Voyager 1 left the heliopause on August 25, 2012, when it measured a sudden increase in plasma density of about forty times. Because the heliopause marks one boundary between the Sun’s solar wind and the rest of the galaxy, a spacecraft such as Voyager 1 which has departed the heliosphere, can be said to have reached interstellar space. source