Voyager - Misson to the Outer Planets
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| Audience/Grade: | High School Sophomore - Continuing Education |
| Discipline(s): |
Aerospace Engineering |
| Special Topic(s): |
History of Technology |
| Learning Resource Type: | Teaching - Laboratory/Experiment/Field Activity |
| Media Type: | WWW |
| Author(s): | National Air and Space Museum |
| Description: | Part of National Air and Space Museum's "exploring the planets" series, this one on the Voyager 1. The media-rich website provides information about the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft that were launched into space, along with the one remaining in the museum. The Voyagers exhibit described the mission, details of the spacecraft, such as its instruments and components. " Voyager was a two-spacecraft mission to the outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Instruments aboard each Voyager studied the structure, composition, and dynamics of the planets' atmospheres, their magnetic fields and radiation belts, and the surfaces and atmospheres of their satellites. Voyager 1, launched September 5, 1977, passed Jupiter in March 1979, Saturn in November 1980, and continued on a trajectory that took it out of the Solar System above the plane of the planets. Voyager 2, launched August 20, 1977, reached Jupiter in July, 1979 and Saturn in August 1981. Following a gravity assist by massive Saturn, Voyager 2 continued on to explore Uranus in January 1986 and Neptune in August 1989. Pluto could not be included in Voyager's tour because its orbital position was out of range of the spacecraft's path. The alignment of the outer planets that made such a "grand tour" possible will not occur again until the year 2157." |
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| Use of Resource: | Could be used as a virtual field trip the the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. |
| Difficulty: | Medium |
| Interactivity Level: | Medium |
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| Publication Date: | 2008 |
| Platform/Format: | WWW |
| Cost: | Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/ceps/etp/voyager/etpvoyager.html |
| Metadata: | IEEE LOM Record |
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