File:Voyager 1, Voyager 2 and Pioneer 10 positions from above.png

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English: Positions of spacecraft Voyager 1 (purple), Voyager 2 (red) and Pioneer 10 (blue) at the end of 2008, viewed from directly above the ecliptic plane. Also depicted are: the one light-day (yellow spherical shell with yellow Vernal point arrow as radius); the Termination Shock (blue shell); Kuiper Belt (small faint gray torus); orbits of Pluto (small tilted ellipse inside Kuiper Belt) and Neptune (smallest ellipse); and the approximate direction of Sirius (white line); all to scale.
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derived from Paul Stansifer's POV-Ray source files (see below), by me, 84user, using w:en:POV-Ray, and w:en:IrfanView.

84user's contribution (inside POV-Ray files: adjusting coordinates, changing light source and other parameters) is public domain and source files used are adapted from those described at User:84user/Size comparison.

Physical information is based on the Wikipedia articles and elsewhere (see POVRay source files) about the respective bodies.

Paul Stansifer's contributions to this image (POV-Ray code) are available under the GPL, v. 2, and other licenses. See User:Paul Stansifer/Size comparison for more details and the other licenses.
Author Paul Stansifer, and User:84user (see "source")

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Because this image was rendered using only Paul Stanfiser's POV source code (no external texture maps used), it is a pure derivative. Therefore Paul's licenses apply; you may use it under the terms of any of these:


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See also

Same model but viewed from slightly above the ecliptic plane looking towards the Vernal point
Voyager 2 and Sirius approximate motion over next 296,000 years
Related view zoomed out to show lengths larger than a light day, such as Hyakutake's orbit's aphelion between the light week and light month shells
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