Nasa’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is sending back strange data from interstellar space - in pictures
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An artist's impression of the Voyager 1 spacecraft entering interstellar space. All photos: Nasa -
The Voyager 1 lifted off on board the Titan III/Centaur on September 5, 1977. -
This picture of a crescent-shaped Earth and Moon was taken on September 18, 1977, by Nasa's Voyager 1 spacecraft when it was 11.66 million kilometres from Earth. -
Voyager 2 took off on August 20, 1977, about two weeks before the September 5 launch of Voyager 1. -
Nasa's Voyager 2 spacecraft gave humanity its first glimpse of Neptune and its moon, Triton, in the summer of 1989.
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