\<COLOUR 1> CLOSEST APPROACH: \<COLOUR 0> Jupiter - 645,000 km, July 9, 1979 Saturn - 101,000 km, August 26, 1981 Uranus - 71,000 km, January 24, 1986 Neptune - 4,900 km, August 25, 1989
\<COLOUR 1> COUNTRY: \<COLOUR 0> USA
\<COLOUR 1> COMMENTS: \<COLOUR 0> The most successful probe in space history; the only one to visit four planets and the only one to explore Uranus and Neptune, during a 12-year mission spanning a distance of more than 7,000,000,000 km; like Voyager 1, it carries a record disc 'Sounds of Earth', carrying sounds and sights of Earth; still transmitting from the edge of the solar system.