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1:01:26missions to the outer solar system. >> Yes. Um, so far we didn't have a good idea of what the planets look like. Planets are small and all we could do is just point telescopes at them from Earth. NASA here launched the twin Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes. They took advantage of a great alignment of the planets where all of the planets were kind of in a line where somebody figured actually if we could use gravity assists from all of them, we could visit all of them in this epic voyage. Um, we got historic close-up data. All of the famous photos that we have of Neptune
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