
The Voyager Mission: A 45th Anniversary Celebration
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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Karl's Brilliant Idea in 1981
It was karl's brilliant idea in 19 81 to appreciate that when voyager had taken its last pictures of the worlds of the outer stolar system after the neptune encounter, the voyager wone could now turn its cameras homeward to look at the sun and its retinue of planets. He started laveying nassa in 19 81, eight years before the last voyager encounter, saying, would they please arrange to take this, these last pictures of home planet and its sibling planets. Well, that was all karl. That wasn't me. I i, of course, i'm sure i encouraged him, but it was karl’s
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