This is the Web Edition of "A Trip Into Space", a Coimbra-based electronic book on space science. Both the texts and the photos are by courtesy of National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
| This is the Web Edition of "A Trip Into Space", a Coimbra-based electronic book on space science. Both the texts and the photos are by courtesy of National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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A Trip Into Space  Solar System Solar System Family Portrait I |
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| See also: Solar System Family, Solar System Family Portrait II |   |
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.
NASA diagram of how the frames for the Solar System Family Portrait were taken:
Last Update: 2004-Nov-28