AstroLab
Voyager: the grand tour of the giants
How a small probe reached four giant planets with help from their gravity, then continued towards interstellar space.
5 min 11 s · Interactive subtitled film
Takeaway: A moving planet can change a probe’s path and speed relative to the Sun.
Useful background
None; the flyby is explained in the story.
Why does the outcome depend on the reference frame?
The journey · 6 chapters
- Four moving rendezvous
- Jupiter, a system of moons
- Saturn, rings in motion
- Uranus, a planet on its side
- Neptune, beyond familiar worlds
- The Sun’s boundaries
Why explore it?
French and English subtitles. Adjustable playback speed, free navigation and sequence reframing. AI-assisted editorial review.