Voyager, 11 Billion Miles Later: Photos from the Depths of Our Solar System

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A technician checks a test model of a Voyager spacecraft at the SAEF-1 facility at the Kennedy Space Centre, Cape Canaveral, Fla. Two Voyager spacecraft were launched in 1977 to explore the planets in the outer Solar System and both were successful, returning many high quality pictures as well as scientific data.

For 33 years, America’s Voyager spacecraft have been flying toward the edges of our solar system. TIME surveys the most notable interstellar scenes captured by the Voyager’s cameras along the way.