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Figure 1.9. The Voyager project involved two spacecraft that explored the outer Solar System in 1979 and into the 1980s
with
flybys of Jupiter and Saturn (Voyagers 1 and 2) and Uranus and Neptune (Voyager 2), providing the
first clear images of their
major moons.
Figure 1.10. The Mars Exploration
Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity,
landed in early 2004. Shown here is
Spirit before launch, compared with
the
flight-spare of the Mars
Path
nder rover on the right (NASA
PIA04421).
