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Behind the Pictures: Top 10 Voyager Facts
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 07:00 am ET
20 August 2002

5

Bit by Bit

A total of five trillion bits of scientific data were returned to Earth by both Voyager spacecraft after the completion of the Neptune encounter. This represents enough bits to encode more than 6,000 complete sets of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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