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Solar System Portrait
Credit: Voyager Project, JPL, NASA
On another Valentine's Day (February 14, 1990),
cruising four billion miles from the Sun, the Voyager 1
spacecraft looked back to make this first ever family
portrait of our Solar System. The complete portrait
is a 60 frame mosaic made from a vantage point 32 degrees
above the ecliptic plane. Voyager's wide angle camera
frames sweep through the inner Solar System
(far left) linking up with gas giant Neptune, at the time
the Solar System's outermost planet (scroll right).
Positions for Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and
Neptune are indicated by the corresponding letters while
the Sun is the bright spot near the center of the circle of
frames. The inset frames for each of the planets are from
Voyager's narrow field camera. Unseen in the portrait are
Mercury, too close to the Sun to be detected, and Mars,
unfortunately hidden by sunlight scattered in the camera's
optical system. Small, faint Pluto's position was not covered
Solar System Portrait
Credit: Voyager Project, JPL, NASA
On another Valentine's Day (February 14, 1990),
cruising four billion miles from the Sun, the Voyager 1
spacecraft looked back to make this first ever family
portrait of our Solar System. The complete portrait
is a 60 frame mosaic made from a vantage point 32 degrees
above the ecliptic plane. Voyager's wide angle camera
frames sweep through the inner Solar System
(far left) linking up with gas giant Neptune, at the time
the Solar System's outermost planet (scroll right).
Positions for Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and
Neptune are indicated by the corresponding letters while
the Sun is the bright spot near the center of the circle of
frames. The inset frames for each of the planets are from
Voyager's narrow field camera. Unseen in the portrait are
Mercury, too close to the Sun to be detected, and Mars,
unfortunately hidden by sunlight scattered in the camera's
optical system. Small, faint Pluto's position was not covered