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Many scientific facts, which today are almost trite, hail from only the past 50-75 years. One example is DNA — we made it through the second world war without the modern genetic theory.
The Voyager spacecrafts are another contribution. We didn’t know much of anything about the outer planets until the 1970s. Even today, if I’m not mistaken, the only close-up images of Neptune are from Voyager 2 in the late 1980s. If it weren’t for the Voyagers, those planets would still be blurry concepts.
When you get to the gas giants these things are so fucking far apart it's crazy.