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The Solar System Family Portrait

Nasa diagram of how the frames for the solar system family portrait were taken. 14 1990 pointed back toward the sun and took a series of pictures of the sun and the planets making the first ever portrait of our solar system as seen from the outside.

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Family Portrait Messenger

The solar system family portrait. Seeing our world in a new and bigger way. Voyager 1s final photographic assignment was to capture family portraits of the sun and planets. The picture is a mosaic of 60 individual frames.

The spacecraft acquired a total of 60 frames for a mosaic of the solar system which shows six of the planets. February 14 1990 these six narrow angle color images were made from the first ever portrait of the solar system taken by voyager 1 which was more than 4 billion miles from earth and about 32 degrees above the ecliptic. A solar system family portrait from the inside out nasas messenger spacecraft has constructed the first portrait of our solar system by combining 34 images taken by the spacecrafts wide angle camera on nov.

After voyager 2 had its encounter with neptune the voyager project turned the cameras of voyager 1 whose camera had been dormant since saturn back on where the two spacecraft had come from and took the images on this page. The family portrait or sometimes portrait of the planets is an image of the solar system acquired by voyager 1 on february 14 1990 from a distance of approximately 6 billion kilometers from earth. In 1990 then planetary society president and voyager imaging team member carl sagan had been working for a decade to get these pictures taken.

The solar system family portrait because it is a symbol what nasa exploration is really about. Jupiters galilean satellites callisto ganymede europa and io. The spacecraft acquired a total of 60 frames for a mosaic of the solar system from a distance of more than 4 billion miles from earth and about 32 degrees above the ecliptic.

The solar system family portrait voyager 1s last view looking back on every planet in the solar system. The cameras of voyager 1 on feb. A solar system family portrait from the inside out.

The frames used to compose the image were the last photographs taken by either voyager spacecraft. The complete portrait is a 60 frame mosaic made from a vantage point 32 degrees above the ecliptic plane. Solar system portrait this narrow angle color image of the earth dubbed pale blue dot is a part of the first ever portrait of the solar system taken by voyager 1.

In the course of taking this mosaic consisting of a total of 60 frames voyager 1 made several images of the inner solar system. It features individual frames of six planets and a partial background indicating their relative positions. In it voyagers wide angle camera frames sweep through the inner solar system at the left linking up with gas giant neptune the solar systems outermost planet at the far right.

Earths moon and jupiters galilean satellites callisto ganymede europa and io can be seen in the nac image insets. The solar systems perch on a spiral arm of the milky way galaxy also afforded a beautiful view of a portion of the galaxy in the bottom center. 3 and 16 2010.

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