![Voyager: The Sound of Earth?, 1977.](http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/10/18/1350574635680/The-Sound-of-Earth-1977.-012.jpg)
![Voyager: NASA Employee Displays Gold-Plated Record to be Placed on Voyager I](http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/10/18/1350574632895/NASA-Employee-Displays-Go-011.jpg)
![Voyager: Launch of Voyager 1 spacecraft, 5 September, 1977](http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/10/18/1350574625389/Launch-of-Voyager-1-space-008.jpg)
![Voyager: Crystal-clear images of Jupiter’s atmosphere](http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/10/18/1350574607739/Crystal-clear-images-of-J-001.jpg)
![Voyager: Close up view of Io, one of the moons of Jupiter, 1979.](http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/10/18/1350574610961/Close-up-view-of-Io-one-o-002.jpg)
![Voyager: Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter, 1979.](http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/10/18/1350574613191/Europa-one-of-the-moons-o-003.jpg)
![Voyager: Saturn's rings before Voyager spacecraft](http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/10/18/1350574615328/Saturns-rings-before-Voya-004.jpg)
![Voyager: One of five main Uranian moons, Miranda,](http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/10/18/1350574617644/One-of-five-main-Uranian--005.jpg)
![Voyager: Neptune glows a brilliant blue in the night sky seen by Voyager 2](http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/10/18/1350574619852/Neptune-Glows-a-Brilliant-006.jpg)
![Voyager: image of Saturn's rings taken by Voyager 1](http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/10/18/1350574627653/Image-of-Saturns-rings-ta-009.jpg)
![Voyager: the rings of Jupiter, photographed by Voyager 2, 1979.](http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/10/18/1350574630142/The-rings-of-Jupiter-phot-010.jpg)
![Voyager: the Voyager family portrait](http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/10/18/1350574622827/The-Voyager-family-portra-007.jpg)
This is a composite photograph of six of the solar system’s planets taken from a vantage point 6bn km above the plane of the solar system. This final photograph uniquely revealed our home planet as a very humbling ‘pale blue dot’, as Carl Sagan described it Photograph: PR