{"id":6749,"date":"2026-08-25T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6749"},"modified":"2025-12-15T22:18:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T03:18:54","slug":"voyager-2-1981-and-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6749","title":{"rendered":"Voyager 2 &#8211; 1981 and 1989"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10646\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10646\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10646\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Voyager-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Voyager 2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10646\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voyager 2<\/p><\/div>\n<p><i>Voyager 2<\/i> made its closest approach to Saturn in 1981 and to Neptune in 1989. Launched August 20, 1977, <i>Voyager 2<\/i> investigated Saturn\u2019s atmosphere. It also researched Neptune\u2019s atmosphere and checked out one of Neptune\u2019s moons, Triton. The spacecraft continues to travel and send back data. Children can keep up to date with that data at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/voyager.jpl.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/voyager.jpl.nasa.gov\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Saturn in 1981 and to Neptune in 1989. Launched August 20, 1977, Voyager 2 investigated Saturn\u2019s atmosphere. It also researched Neptune\u2019s atmosphere and checked out one of Neptune\u2019s moons, Triton. The spacecraft continues to travel and send back data. Children can keep up to date with that data <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6749' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5131,5810,5424,5130,1304,1234,1232,1308,1231],"class_list":["post-6749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5131","tag-5810","tag-5424","tag-august-20","tag-august-25","tag-neptune","tag-saturn","tag-triton","tag-voyager-2","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6749"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25317,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6749\/revisions\/25317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}