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ShareThe Voyager program consisted of a pair of unmanned scientific probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, launched in 1977.
They were sent to study Jupiter and Saturn, using an advantageous planetary alignment of the late 1970s.
For more information about the topic Voyager program, read the full article at Wikipedia.org, or see the following related articles:
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