1 00:00:07,130 --> 00:00:05,329 we knew we were on a journey of 2 00:00:09,980 --> 00:00:07,140 discovery when we launched the larger 3 00:00:13,070 --> 00:00:09,990 spacecraft but we had no idea how much 4 00:00:15,110 --> 00:00:13,080 there was to discover we had a sense 5 00:00:18,230 --> 00:00:15,120 that we knew what it felt like to be 6 00:00:20,900 --> 00:00:18,240 Magellan or Columbus time after time 7 00:00:22,849 --> 00:00:20,910 were surprised by seeing things that we 8 00:00:26,570 --> 00:00:22,859 had not expected or even imagined 9 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:26,580 volcanoes erupting from a moon Isle the 10 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:28,170 possibility of a liquid water ocean 11 00:00:34,130 --> 00:00:31,410 under the icy crust of Europa Titan 12 00:00:36,410 --> 00:00:34,140 where we found an atmosphere Uranus 13 00:00:38,810 --> 00:00:36,420 small moon Miranda which had one of the 14 00:00:42,139 --> 00:00:38,820 most complex GOG surfaces we've seen 15 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:42,149 even at Neptune Triton 40 degrees above 16 00:00:46,910 --> 00:00:44,250 absolute zero even there there were 17 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:46,920 geysers erupting it's the only 18 00:00:50,660 --> 00:00:48,930 spacecraft that's gone by Uranus it's 19 00:00:52,549 --> 00:00:50,670 the only spacecraft that's gone by 20 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:52,559 Neptune everything we know about those 21 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:54,930 planets we know from Voyager to see 22 00:00:59,770 --> 00:00:57,090 those first pictures coming in from the 23 00:01:02,060 --> 00:00:59,780 outer solar system for the first time 24 00:01:06,350 --> 00:01:02,070 what had been a point of light in the 25 00:01:08,420 --> 00:01:06,360 sky was a place I really credit the 26 00:01:11,149 --> 00:01:08,430 people that designed the mission both 27 00:01:13,070 --> 00:01:11,159 the engineers and the mission planners 28 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:13,080 and scientists because not only did they 29 00:01:17,870 --> 00:01:15,210 build an extremely robust durable 30 00:01:20,630 --> 00:01:17,880 spacecraft but they had the vision to 31 00:01:24,260 --> 00:01:20,640 send it on a path such that it could get 32 00:01:27,170 --> 00:01:24,270 out into interstellar space and carry a 33 00:01:29,390 --> 00:01:27,180 gold records roms on point you okay yeah 34 00:01:32,539 --> 00:01:29,400 and here was this a Noah's Ark of human 35 00:01:35,990 --> 00:01:32,549 culture that was being sent to the outer 36 00:01:38,990 --> 00:01:36,000 planets and then beyond to wander in the 37 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:39,000 interstellar darkness for a billion 38 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:39,570 years 39 00:01:54,319 --> 00:01:51,200 on Valentine's Day 1990 Voyager 1 looked 40 00:01:58,340 --> 00:01:54,329 homeward and what did it find not the 41 00:02:02,789 --> 00:01:58,350 frame filling Apollo earth but instead 42 00:02:06,419 --> 00:02:02,799 that one pixel earth that's here 43 00:02:08,219 --> 00:02:06,429 that's home the Voyager spacecraft are 44 00:02:10,259 --> 00:02:08,229 in the outer layer of the heliosphere 45 00:02:13,619 --> 00:02:10,269 the giant bubbles Sun creates around 46 00:02:14,910 --> 00:02:13,629 itself with its supersonic wind Voyager 47 00:02:16,589 --> 00:02:14,920 today is headed for the edge of 48 00:02:18,990 --> 00:02:16,599 interstellar space that's the space 49 00:02:22,199 --> 00:02:19,000 between stars and it's filled with 50 00:02:24,509 --> 00:02:22,209 material that has been injected by the 51 00:02:26,550 --> 00:02:24,519 explosion of stars matter which came 52 00:02:28,470 --> 00:02:26,560 from a particular direction creating a 53 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:28,480 wind which has shaped the bubble in 54 00:02:53,310 --> 00:02:49,710 Voyageur really has changed our view of 55 00:02:55,620 --> 00:02:53,320 the solar system this will be a 56 00:02:57,720 --> 00:02:55,630 milestone in space exploration leaving 57 00:02:59,220 --> 00:02:57,730 the solar system leaving the bubble and