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Scientists Figured Out How to Probe the Boundary of the Solar System
While NASA has sent two probes out past our heliosphere—Voyager 1 and 2—there’s still a lot we don’t know about the protective shield around the Solar System. A proposed Interstellar Probe ...
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Voyager: A History in Photos
Voyager 2 preceded it into space by 16 days, but Voyager 1 quickly overtook it on a faster trajectory ... ever recorded on any planet in our solar system. When the Hubble Space Telescope imaged ...
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Scientists reveal the best possible route to exit our solar system
All the planets in our solar system are enveloped by a giant bubble ... In August and September 1977, NASA launched Voyager 2 ...
The 1960s Tech Keeping NASA’s Voyager Probes Alive for Nearly 50 Years
Solar panels are next to useless in the outer solar system, so NASA’s Voyager probes rely on nuclear batteries—technology ...
NASA’s Next Mission Could Finally Solve the Mystery of Our Solar System’s Edge
The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...
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Interstellar 8-Track: The Not-So-Low-Tech Data Recorders Of Voyager
Not only will it prove that we’re not alone, or more likely weren’t, depending on how long said probe has been traveling through ... the solar system. In 2007, the DTR in Voyager 1 was shut ...
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Voyager 1 has just awakened — We thought he would never do it
The problem arose through ... our solar system and our place in space to humans. From pictures of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot to evidence of volcanos on Io, Voyagers have redefined our understanding of ...