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Revision of scientific objectives for participation in the Voyager mission
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A set of revisions to the scientific objectives of the Voyager mission prepared at the request of Bradford Smith, head of the Voyager Project's photo-imagery team. The brief document mentions a series of primary goals for the mission including the examination of chromophores in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn, observation of vorticity and exchange in the Great Red Spot of Jupiter, and examination of the satellites of Jupiter and Saturn. The document ends with Sagan noting he will be on a leave of absence from Cornell University for the entire year of 1979 when he will be based in Los Angeles working on the television series Cosmos and devoting the remainder of his time to the Voyager mission.
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In 1977, Voyager 1 and 2 started their one-way journey to the end of the solar system and beyond, now traveling a million miles a day. Jimmy Carter was president when NASA launched two probes from Cape Canaveral. Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, were initially meant to explore Jupiter, Saturn, and their moons. They did that. But then they kept going at a rate of 35,000 miles per hour. Each craft bears an object that is a record, both dubbed the Golden Records. They were the product of Carl Sagan and his team who produced a record that would, if discovered by aliens, represent humanity and "communicate a story of our world to extraterrestrials."
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