NASA has posted on its website a couple of visual animations showing the flight paths of the Voyager spacecraft. Here is a video dedicated to Voyager 1.
Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977 - two weeks after Voyager 2. In March 1979 he visited Jupiter, in November 1980 - Saturn. After the passage of the Titan, the spacecraft left along a trajectory leading it upward relative to the plane of the ecliptic. On February 14, 1990, Voyager 1 captured the famous Pale Blue Dot photograph. On August 25, 2012, the apparatus passed the heliopause and entered interstellar space. Currently, there are four scientific instruments on board the spacecraft: a low-energy charged particle detector, a cosmic ray detector, a magnetometer and a plasma wave receiver.
And here is the same video for Voyager 2. Although it was launched earlier than its brother, it quickly overtook it. In July 1979, Voyager 2 flew by Jupiter, in August 1981, Saturn. Since NASA decided to abandon the Titan flyby, this made it possible to send the device further. In January 1986, Voyager 2 reached Uranus; in August 1989, it visited Neptune. After the flyby of Neptune and its satellite Triton, the spacecraft left the trajectory that led it downward in relation to the plane of the ecliptic. This was done specifically with the expectation that Voyagers would study different regions of the solar system.
Looking through these animations, for some reason I remembered the old idea of a solar sailing ships regatta to Mars. And what, spacecraft races would definitely plug any Formula 1 and NASCARs into the belt. Who knows, maybe someday we will actually see the implementation of such an idea?
Voyager 2 has not yet passed the heliopause. Currently, five scientific instruments are operating on board the spacecraft: a low-energy charged particle detector, a cosmic ray detector, a magnetometer, a plasma wave receiver, and a plasma detector. The last instrument, which broke down on Voyager 1, will allow direct measurements of the interstellar medium. Therefore, the mission staff are eagerly awaiting when Voyager 2 finally crosses the heliopause and hope that this will happen before the communication with the device is lost.