VOYAGER
Photographs from Humanity’s Greatest JourneyThe twin Voyagers left in 1977 and are still travelling. The book follows them past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, to the Pale Blue Dot and the Golden Record, in photographs reworked from the raw data so they could be printed large for the first time.
Voyager’s journey, told in pictures.
In 1977 the twin Voyagers left Earth and gave us the first detailed views of the Solar System beyond Mars. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune turned from specks of light into worlds, and Voyager 1 looked back to photograph the Pale Blue Dot. VOYAGER follows that journey in pictures.
The famous images are here, alongside photographs never published before. Voyager’s pictures came home at just 800 by 800 pixels, which made them hard to print well. With the latest imaging software and Ted Stryk’s knowledge of the Voyager data, the team reworked them from the raw data so they could be printed large for the first time.
Between the photographs, the book tells the story of the waiting. After each fly-by the team often had to wait years before the cameras reached the next planet or moon: Voyager 2 flew for more than four years from Saturn to Uranus, and more than three more to reach Neptune.
The book also covers the story behind the mission, from the Golden Record to the search for life elsewhere and the entry into interstellar space, with an essay by Dr Garry Hunt, one of the nine scientists on Voyager’s imaging team.
By Jens Bezemer, Joel Meter, Simon Phillipson, Delano Steenmeijer and Ted Stryk. With an essay by Dr Garry Hunt of the Voyager imaging team, and help from Dr Candy Hansen of the imaging team, who shared her own experience of the mission with us.
- Publisher
- teNeues
- First published
- 2020
- This edition
- September 2025, tN4t edition
- Pages
- 304
- Format
- Softcover, 28.2 × 22 cm
- ISBN
- 978-3-96171-707-1
In their words
“I remember we referred to it as ‘drinking out of a fire hose’; you are trying to take a little sip, and this torrent of images is coming out.”
What is the tN4t edition?
A softcover edition teNeues published in 2025, as one of the titles marking the 40th anniversary of its first illustrated book.
Who made the book?
Jens Bezemer, Joel Meter, Simon Phillipson, Delano Steenmeijer and Ted Stryk, with an essay by Dr Garry Hunt of the Voyager imaging team.
Where can I buy the book?
From the publisher, gestalten, or from your bookshop.
