The Voyager Image Gallery

What would any good road trip be without pictures? The images sent back by the Voyagers are at times beautiful, at times intriguing, and oftentimes profound. Below are a select handful of the thousands of pictures taken by the Voyagers on their trip across the solar system.

Note: All of the images on this page are courtesy of NASA.

Earth:

Taken by Voyager 1 in Sept. 1977, this is the first simultaneous photograph of both the Earth and Moon taken by a spacecraft.

Jupiter:

Taken by Voyager 2 in June 1979, this picture shows the planet Jupiter; Io, one of its moons; and the shadow of Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon.

A picture of Jupiter's Great Red Spot taken by Voyager 1 in Feb. 1979.

Saturn:

A picture of Saturn taken by Voyager 2 in July 1981.

Taken by Voyager 1 in Nov. 1980, this is a picture of Mimas, one of the moons of Saturn. The impact crater measures around ¼ of the diameter of the moon, and is among the largest in the solar system.

Taken by Voyager 2 in August 1981, this is a false color image of the rings of Saturn.

Uranus:

A picture of Uranus taken by Voyager 2 in Jan. 1986.

Neptune:

A picture of Neptune taken by Voyager 2 in Aug. 1989 showing Neptune's Great Dark Spot.

Solar System:

Taken by Voyager 1 in Feb. 1990. By 1990, Voyager 1 was farther from the Sun than Pluto, and approximately 4 billion miles from the Earth. Thus, NASA gave Voyager 1 one last assignment and had the craft take the first ever pictures of the planets from “outside” the solar system. This is a compilation of those shots.

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