I ran across a cool video the other day – a tribute to the Voyager (or V-ger) spacecraft from the 1970s. It reminded me of similar footage sent from Ellie’s approach to Planet X. It’s a little grainy, but it was shot with 1970s technology and traveled 8.6 light years to get here.

Planet-X-fly-to

 

Here’s a much better shot of the planet in false color. Mostly cloud covered, but you can make out some surface features:

 

Planet-X-pic

 

Lastly, here’s the video that inspired me to post this stuff:

 

Voyagers from Santiago Menghini on Vimeo.

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