Editing Voyager program (section)

=== Scientific instruments ===
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! scope="col" style="width:50px;"| Abbreviation
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| {{center|Imaging Science System <br />}}
| {{center|ISS}}
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| Used a two-camera system (narrow-angle/wide-angle) to provide imagery of Jupiter, Saturn and other objects along the trajectory.
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! colspan="2" | Filters
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! colspan="4" scope="col" |Narrow-angle camera<ref name="NACam3">{{cite web |title=Voyager 1 Narrow Angle Camera Description |url=https://pds-rings.seti.org/voyager/iss/inst_cat_na1.html#filters |access-date=January 17, 2011 |publisher=NASA |archive-date=11 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811232250/http://pds-rings.seti.org/voyager/iss/inst_cat_na1.html#filters |url-status=live }}</ref>
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! scope="col" style="background:#e5e5e5; width:60px;" |Name
! scope="col" style="background:#e5e5e5;" |Wavelength
! scope="col" style="background:#e5e5e5;" |Spectrum
! scope="col" style="background:#e5e5e5;" |Sensitivity
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|<small>0 – Clear</small>
|<small>280–640&nbsp;nm</small>
|[[File:Voyager - Filters - Clear.png|center|50x50px]]
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| style="text-align:center; height:25px;" |<small>4 – Clear</small>
|<small>280–640&nbsp;nm</small>
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|<small>7 – [[Ultraviolet|UV]]</small>
|<small>280–370&nbsp;nm</small>
|[[File:Voyager - Filters - UV.png|center|50x50px]]
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|<small>1 – Violet</small>
|<small>350–450&nbsp;nm</small>
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|<small>2 – Blue</small>
|<small>430–530&nbsp;nm</small>
|[[File:Voyager - Filters - Blue.png|center|50x50px]]
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|<small>5 – Green</small>
|<small>530–640&nbsp;nm</small>
|[[File:Voyager - Filters - Green.png|center|50x50px]]
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| style="text-align:center; height:25px;" |<small>6 – Green</small>
|<small>530–640&nbsp;nm</small>
|[[File:Voyager - Filters - Green.png|center|50x50px]]
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|<small>3 – Orange</small>
|<small>590–640&nbsp;nm</small>
|[[File:Voyager - Filters - Orange.png|center|50x50px]]
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! colspan="4" scope="col" |Wide-angle camera<ref name="WACam3">{{cite web |title=Voyager 1 Wide Angle Camera Description |url=https://pds-rings.seti.org/voyager/iss/inst_cat_wa1.html#filters |access-date=January 17, 2011 |publisher=NASA |archive-date=7 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107025433/https://pds-rings.seti.org/voyager/iss/inst_cat_wa1.html#filters |url-status=live }}</ref>
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! scope="col" style="background:#e5e5e5; width:60px;" |Name
! scope="col" style="background:#e5e5e5;" |Wavelength
! scope="col" style="background:#e5e5e5;" |Spectrum
! scope="col" style="background:#e5e5e5;" |Sensitivity
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|<small>2 – Clear</small>
|<small>280–640&nbsp;nm</small>
|[[File:Voyager - Filters - Clear.png|center|50x50px]]
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|<small>3 – Violet</small>
|<small>350–450&nbsp;nm</small>
|[[File:Voyager - Filters - Violet.png|center|50x50px]]
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|<small>1 – Blue</small>
|<small>430–530&nbsp;nm</small>
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|<small>6 – [[Methane|CH<sub>4</sub>]]-U</small>
|<small>536–546&nbsp;nm</small>
|[[File:Voyager - Filters - CH4U.png|center|50x50px]]
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|<small>5 – Green</small>
|<small>530–640&nbsp;nm</small>
|[[File:Voyager - Filters - Green.png|center|50x50px]]
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|<small>4 – [[Sodium|Na]]-D</small>
|<small>588–590&nbsp;nm</small>
|[[File:Voyager - Filters - NaD.png|center|50x50px]]
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|<small>7 – Orange</small>
|<small>590–640&nbsp;nm</small>
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|<small>0 – [[Methane|CH<sub>4</sub>]]-JST</small>
|<small>614–624&nbsp;nm</small>
|[[File:Voyager - Filters - CH4JST.png|center|50x50px]]
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* <small>'''Principal investigator:''' [[Bradford A. Smith]] / University of Arizona</small>
* <small>'''Data:''' PDS/PDI data catalog, PDS/PRN data catalog</small>
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| {{center|Radio Science System <br />}}
| {{center|RSS}}
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| Used the telecommunications system of the Voyager spacecraft to determine the physical properties of planets and satellites (ionospheres, atmospheres, masses, gravity fields, densities) and the amount and size distribution of material in the Saturn rings and the ring dimensions.
* <small>'''Principal investigator:''' G. Tyler / Stanford University</small>
* <small>'''Data:''' PDS/PPI data catalog , PDS/PRN data catalog '''('''VG_2803''')''', NSSDC data archive</small>
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| {{center|[[Infrared interferometer spectrometer and radiometer]] <br />}}
| {{center|IRIS}}
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| Investigated both global and local energy balance and atmospheric composition. Vertical temperature profiles were also obtained from the planets and satellites, as well as the composition, thermal properties, and size of particles in [[Saturn's rings]].
* <small>'''Principal investigator:''' Rudolf Hanel / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center</small>
* <small>'''Data:''' PDS/PRN data catalog, PDS/PRN expanded data catalog '''('''VGIRIS_0001, VGIRIS_002''')''', NSSDC Jupiter data archive</small>
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| {{center|Ultraviolet [[Spectrometer]] <br />}}
| {{center|UVS}}
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| Designed to measure atmospheric properties, and to measure radiation.
* <small>'''Principal investigator:''' A. Broadfoot / University of Southern California</small>
* <small>'''Data:''' PDS/PRN data catalog</small>
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| {{center|Triaxial Fluxgate [[Magnetometer]] <br />}} [[File:Deployed magnetometer boom of one of NASA's Voyager PIA21738.jpg|center|140px]]
| {{center|MAG}}
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| Designed to investigate the magnetic fields of Jupiter and Saturn, the solar-wind interaction with the magnetospheres of these planets, and the interplanetary magnetic field out to the solar wind boundary with the interstellar magnetic field and beyond, if crossed.
* <small>'''Principal investigator:''' [[Norman F. Ness]] / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center</small>
* <small>'''Data:''' PDS/PPI data catalog , NSSDC data archive</small>
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| {{center|[[Plasma (physics)|Plasma]] [[Spectrometer]] <br />}} [[File:PIA22922~orig.jpg|center|140px]]
| {{center|PLS}}
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| Investigated the macroscopic properties of the [[Plasma (physics)|plasma]] ions and measures electrons in the energy range from 5 eV to 1 keV.
* <small>'''Principal investigator:''' John Richardson / MIT</small>
* <small>'''Data:''' PDS/PPI data catalog , NSSDC data archive</small>
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| {{center|Low Energy [[Charged Particle]] Instrument <br />}} [[File:Voyager Low Energy Charged Particle Instrument.jpg|center|140px]]
| {{center|LECP}}
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| Measures the differential in energy fluxes and angular distributions of ions, electrons and the differential in energy ion composition.
* <small>'''Principal investigator:''' [[Stamatios Krimigis]] / JHU/APL / University of Maryland</small>
* <small>'''Data:''' UMD data plotting, PDS/PPI data catalog , NSSDC data archive</small>
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| {{center|[[Cosmic Ray System]] <br />}}
| {{center|CRS}}
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| Determines the origin and acceleration process, life history, and dynamic contribution of interstellar cosmic rays, the nucleosynthesis of elements in cosmic-ray sources, the behavior of cosmic rays in the interplanetary medium, and the trapped planetary energetic-particle environment.
* <small>'''Principal investigator:''' [[Edward C. Stone|Edward Stone]] / Caltech / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center</small>
* <small>'''Data:''' PDS/PPI data catalog , NSSDC data archive</small>
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| {{center|Planetary [[Radio Astronomy]] Investigation <br />}}
| {{center|PRA}}
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| Used a sweep-frequency radio receiver to study the radio-emission signals from Jupiter and Saturn.
* <small>'''Principal investigator:''' James Warwick / University of Colorado</small>
* <small>'''Data:''' PDS/PPI data catalog, NSSDC data archive</small>
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| {{center|[[Polarimeter|Photopolarimeter]] System <br />}}
| {{center|PPS}}
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| Used a 6-inch f/1.4 Dahl-Kirkham-type Cassegrain telescope with an analyzer wheel containing five analyzers of 0,60,120,45 and 135 degrees and filter wheel with eight spectral bands covering 2350 to 7500A to gather information on surface texture and composition of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and information on atmospheric scattering properties and density for these planets.
* <small>'''Data:''' PDS/PRN data catalog and PDS Atmospheric Node</small>
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| {{center|[[Plasma Wave Subsystem]] <br />}}
| {{center|PWS}}
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| Provides continuous, sheath-independent measurements of the electron-density profiles at Jupiter and Saturn as well as basic information on local wave-particle interaction, useful in studying the magnetospheres.
* <small>'''Principal investigator:''' [[Donald Gurnett]] / University of Iowa</small>
* <small>'''Data:''' PDS/PPI data catalog</small>
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File:Voyager instruments boom.jpg|A view of some of Voyager's instruments from below. Left: the cameras, ultraviolet and infrared spectrometers (far left), plasma detector (black box lower right), particle and radiation detectors (far right). On the boom, center and right, are plasma, particle, and cosmic ray detectors.
File:Voyager’s 13-meter-long magnetometer boom.jpg|Voyager's fully extended 13-meter-long magnetometer boom
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