Atlas — the interactive world
the Solar System · Explore · schematic figure · 8 planets · 5 dwarf planets · 2 belts · 1 comet · positions computed for today · editorial corpus · no live source connected
Mission · NASA · Operating
Voyager 2
- Launched —
- 1977-08-20
- Programme —
- Voyager
Encounter order — not trajectory
- 1. 1979-07-09 · Jupiter · Io · flybyVoyager 2 closest approach to Jupiter
- 2. 1981-08-25 · Saturn · flybyVoyager 2 passes Saturn and continues towards Uranus
- 3. 1986-01-24 · Uranus · flybyVoyager 2 reaches Uranus — the only close encounter ever made
- 4. 1989-08-25 · Neptune · Triton · flybyVoyager 2 passes Neptune and Triton, ending the planetary programme
An encounter sequence is the order the records give, not a flight path. Atlas holds no trajectory for these missions and draws none.
Dates are the operator’s mission record; none was network-verified in this production run, and the record says so.
Schematic · log-compressed · ranked discs · not an ephemeris — full statement →
Schematic view: distances are log-compressed (to true scale Neptune sits 30× Earth’s distance) and discs are ranked by size, not to scale. Positions computed from JPL mean orbital elements for today — an orientation good to a few degrees, not an ephemeris.
Data: NASA Planetary Fact Sheet · JPL approximate elements · JPL small-body database (1P/Halley).