VoyagerPhotographs from Humanity’s Greatest Journey
Both Voyagers are still sending data home
800 pixels. Printed large.
Every frame Voyager sent home was just 800 by 800 pixels. Taken by a robot flying at tens of thousands of miles an hour, up to 2.8 billion miles from Earth, and radioed back pixel by pixel. Far too small to print well, until now. With today’s imaging tools and Ted Stryk’s deep knowledge of the Voyager data, the photographs were reworked to print large, in full detail, for the first time.
“It is impossible for me to choose a favorite picture. I adore them all.”
Dr Garry Hunt, from his essay in the book
- 400photographs
- 304pages
- 800×800pixels per original frame
Inside the book
The planets and moons Voyager photographed
Jupiter · 1979
King of the Gods
Voyager 1 flew past in March, Voyager 2 in July. Up close, the Great Red Spot turned out to be a storm wider than Earth.
Jupiter’s moon · 1979
Io
Navigation engineer Linda Morabito spotted a plume rising off its edge in a Voyager 1 image: the first active volcano ever found beyond Earth.
Jupiter’s moon · 1979
Europa
A bright shell of ice, crossed by long cracks. Scientists now think an ocean lies beneath it.
Jupiter’s moon · 1979
Ganymede
The largest moon in the Solar System, bigger than the planet Mercury.
Jupiter’s moon · 1979
Callisto
Covered in craters, with a surface that has barely changed in four billion years.
Saturn · 1980–81
Dancing with Rings
Hundreds of ringlets, and the small moons that shepherd them. After Saturn, Voyager 1 left the plane of the planets for good.
Saturn’s moon · 1980
Titan
Voyager 1 found an atmosphere thicker than Earth’s, made mostly of nitrogen, and a haze that hides the surface.
Uranus · 1986
Sideway Spinner
Only Voyager 2 has ever been there. A planet that spins on its side, with ten moons nobody had seen before.
Uranus’s moon · 1986
Miranda
A patchwork of ridges, grooves and cliffs, among the tallest known in the Solar System.
Neptune · 1989
It’s a Wild World
The last stop for Voyager 2, with the fastest winds measured anywhere in the Solar System.
Neptune’s moon · 1989
Triton
Dark streaks left by geysers of nitrogen, on a moon that orbits Neptune backwards.
The planets and their moons
“Suddenly those tiny specks of light, the previously known satellites seen only through telescopes, became worlds of their own interlaced with countless new features.”
Dr Garry Hunt, Voyager imaging team
“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us.”
Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
Both Voyagers are still sending data home
16,100,000,000 miles
Voyager 1 from Earth, about 25,900,000,000 km
On November 18, 2026, Voyager 1 reaches one light-day from Earth: a signal from its 23-watt transmitter will take a full day to arrive. Voyager 2 is still sending data too, on a different path out of the Solar System.
Voyager, in short.
Where is Voyager 1 now?
More than 16 billion miles (25.9 billion km) from Earth, the farthest any human-made object has traveled. On November 18, 2026, it reaches one light-day from Earth: a radio signal takes a full day to get there.
Are both Voyager spacecraft still working?
Yes. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are both still sending data from interstellar space. Their cameras were switched off in 1990, and most instruments have since been turned off to save power.
Which planets did Voyager visit?
Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter in 1979 and Saturn in 1980. Voyager 2 visited all four giant planets: Jupiter in 1979, Saturn in 1981, Uranus in 1986 and Neptune in 1989. It is still the only spacecraft to have visited Uranus and Neptune.
What did Voyager discover on the moons?
Active volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io, the cracked ice of Europa, the thick nitrogen atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan, the cliffs of Miranda at Uranus, and geysers on Neptune’s moon Triton.
What is the Pale Blue Dot?
A photograph of Earth taken by Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990, from about 3.7 billion miles (6 billion km) away. Earth appears as a speck less than a pixel wide, in a band of scattered sunlight.
What is on the Voyager Golden Record?
115 images, greetings in 55 languages, sounds of Earth and 90 minutes of music, on a gold-plated copper record carried by both spacecraft.
Why are Voyager’s photographs hard to print?
Each frame from Voyager’s cameras is only 800 by 800 pixels, taken from a spacecraft moving at tens of thousands of miles an hour. Printed large, that falls apart. For this book the frames were reworked with today’s imaging tools and Ted Stryk’s knowledge of the Voyager data, so they could be printed large, in full detail, for the first time.
What is the book Voyager: Photographs from Humanity’s Greatest Journey?
A photo book of the Voyager missions, published by teNeues. The 2025 softcover has 304 pages and about 400 photographs, with an essay by Voyager imaging scientist Dr Garry Hunt.
Take the journey home.
Voyager: Photographs from Humanity’s Greatest Journey. The 2025 softcover edition, published by teNeues, available now from Gestalten.
- Edition
- Softcover, tN4t edition, September 2025
- Photographs
- About 400: some 300 in color, 100 in black and white
- Format
- 11.1 × 8.7 in (28.2 × 22 cm), 304 pages
- Essay
- “The Eyes of the Beholder” by Dr Garry Hunt, Voyager imaging team
- Authors
- Jens Bezemer, Joel Meter, Simon Phillipson, Delano Steenmeijer, Ted Stryk
- Publisher
- teNeues
- ISBN
- 978-3-96171-707-1