THE GRAND TOUR:
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Once every 175 years, in our solar system, occurs unusual configuration
of 4 outer planets. / Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune /
Gary Flando, an aerospace engineer, calculated that one spacecraft
with help of gravitational maneuvers and series of flights would make
an unique tour with opportunity to visit these four planets.
NASA has begun to work on this project
named "THE GRAND TOUR".
After 15 years of work this project turned into the "VOYAGER" mission.
On August 20, 1977 the spacecraft "VOYAGER 2" launched its (for many of us,
so far) unimaginable space journey "THE GRAND TOUR".

"THE GRAND TOUR" for many of us seems to be an unimaginable, neverending journey,
where the result is uncertain but shows us commitment and determination to not to be afraid.
The knowledge that "THE GRAND TOUR" is inside of each one of us.
It's just up to us where we shall go...
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MIRANDA:
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January 24, 1986, 2.9 billion kilometers from Earth "VOYAGER 2" has reached
the seventh planet of our solar system.
It was the only one of the eight planets to be named after Greek god of heaven
"URANUS".
So far, it is the most mysterious, the most secretive subject for us Earthians.
In astrology it creates mysticism.
Creative people are filled with astral creativity which gives infinity to our dreams.
As it shapes us, it strongly influences also its satellites.
MIRANDA, destructively destroyed by its tidal power to re-materialize into extreme
geological formations, where ice is a stone and creates cracks on its surface...
let's fall together in low gravity
at least 6 minutes
to imagine
MIARANDA.
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CORDELIA and OPHELIA:
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81.500 kilometers above the pale blue clouds of URANUS,
this was the closest distance of VOYAGER 2.
It took 8000 photos.
Discovered 10 new moons.
On the surface, it measured a temperature minus 224 degrees of Celsius
and confirmed the new discovery of 13 rings which move on the same level
with the equator of the planet.
Equator is myteriously inclined in 98 degrees.
So the Uranus with its rings looks like a target
from our point of view of us, Earthians.
Thirteen means only number to someone but for the other it means mystic
and superstition.
Cordelia and Ophelia create reality, seemingly distant to us,
or they just form a theater on a pale blue background.
One is quarrelsome, the other is savior.
Both moons are shepherds of Uranus rings...
they gravitate them.
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OBERON:
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URANUS IV, satellite, closed into 42 ears of darkness
and then 42 years of constant sunlight.
With its estimated age of 4 billion years, it has the right to be called
The King of Fairies.
Mystical, dazzling and dark...