Here are some fascinating facts and historical highlights that you might like to share with your students:

• Voyagers 1 and 2 have sent appromimately 86,000 photos back to Earth
• 5 trillion bits of scientific data have been sent back from the Voyagers' enough to encode over 6000 complete sets of the Encyclopedia Britannica
• A digital watch operates at a power level 20 billion times greater than the strength of the signals that the Voyagers are sending back to Earth
• Each Voyager has over 65,000 individual parts which is the equivalent of 2000 color TV sets
• Voyager 2 used gravitiy-assist swing-bys, or slingshots, of Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus in order to reach Neptune 20 years sooner than the direct Earth-to-Neptune route would have taken