![]() Rather than concentrate on the most famous Voyager images for this book, the authors decided to choose them for their scientific importance and even reprocessed some raw image files to highlight “the aesthetic beauty and to bring out the hidden details”, for which ‘full marks!’. ![]() It’s unclear whether it is intentional, but the font used for the text is a sans-serif typeface reminiscent of books produced when Voyager was young and, though strange to contemporary eyes, it seems to fit well with the images. ![]() The book is a large format (24 x 35cm) volume containing some 200 colour and 100 monochrome images. Hair-splitting apart, this is a great celebration of the Voyager imagery and, by implication, the technology that made it all possible. ![]() While Apollo aficionados might have something to say about this, they would not deny the Voyager programme’s esteemed status in the field of what used to be called unmanned space exploration. Indeed, this book’s subtitle goes as far as to suggest that the flights of these two space probes represent “humanity’s greatest journey”. It is an incredible four-and-a-half decades since the two Voyager spacecraft were launched to the outer solar system and, arguably, anyone who hasn’t heard of them just hasn’t been paying attention. ![]()
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