Travellers' Tales

Cosmos, Episode 6

November 2, 1980

The journeys of the Voyager probes is put in the context of the Netherlands in the seventeenth century, with a centuries-long tradition of sailing ship explorers, and its contemporary thinkers (such as Constantijn Huygens and his son Christiaan). Their discoveries are compared to the Voyager probes’ discoveries among the Jovian and Saturn systems. In Cosmos Update, image processing reconstructs Voyager’s worlds and Voyager’s last portrait of the Solar System as it leaves is shown.

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Travellers' Tales

Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan

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