Question 1

True or false: Voyager 2 carries a golden record with sounds and images of Earth.

Accepted Answer

True. Like Voyager 1, it carries a phonograph record meant to communicate human culture to any extraterrestrial finder.

Question 2

True or false: Voyager 2 discovered active volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io.

Accepted Answer

False. Voyager 1 actually discovered Io's volcanoes; Voyager 2 later confirmed and studied them in more detail.

Question 3

True or false: Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have flown by Neptune.

Accepted Answer

True. No other spacecraft has visited Neptune; Voyager 2 remains the sole flyby in 1989.

Question 4

True or false: Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have visited all four gas giants.

Accepted Answer

True. It flew by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, making it the only probe to visit Uranus and Neptune.

Question 5

True or false: Voyager 2's power source will run out around 2030, ending all communication.

Accepted Answer

True. Its plutonium-powered generators will decay enough that instruments and transmitters will fail by the early 2030s.

Question 6

True or false: Voyager 2 discovered that Saturn's rings are made entirely of ice particles.

Accepted Answer

False. Saturn's rings contain mostly ice, but also rocky debris and dust; Voyager 2 found they're not pure ice.

Question 7

True or false: Voyager 2 was launched after Voyager 1, but reached Jupiter first.

Accepted Answer

False. Voyager 2 launched before Voyager 1, but Voyager 1 took a faster trajectory and reached Jupiter first.

Question 8

True or false: Voyager 2 used a slingshot maneuver around Saturn to reach Uranus.

Accepted Answer

True. Its trajectory leveraged Saturn's gravity to bend its path toward Uranus, a rare planetary alignment.

Voyager 2 Trivia Questions