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Voyager 2 closes in on Uranus and beams back data
Voyager 2, launched in 1977, nears Uranus after eight years in space. Engineers remotely rebuilt the craft to act as a long exposure camera platform, aiming to capture images during a six hour window as it speeds toward the distant planet and its moons and rings.
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Lee Dye
Los Angeles Times Gang
Voyager 2
Virgin Territory
Earth
Voyager
Bird
Uranus
Saturn
Jupiter
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena
Solar System
Edward C. Stone
California Institute of Technology
JPL
Cape Canaveral
Sky & Telescope