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 ...
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NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend life of the two interstellar spacecraft 'Every day could be our last.'
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, can continue exploring space beyond the limits of the solar system. To save energy for further interstellar exploration, mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...
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Scientists Think They’ve Uncovered Mysterious Arms Near the Boundary of the Solar System
To put its location and size into perspective, the Voyager space probes (the objects that we ... and rework our mental pictures of the Solar System once again. Jackie is a writer and editor from ...
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Some of Earth’s meteors are probably coming all the way from a neighboring star system
Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to the ... comet in our solar system. But neither came from Alpha Centauri. Just as Jupiter’s gravity catapulted the two Voyager spacecraft onto ...
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The farthest spacecraft from Earth are shutting off instruments in interstellar space
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, originally designed to fly by the largest planets in our solar system, are now the most distant objects made by humans. Voyager 1 is more than 15 billion miles (25 billion ...
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Stunning space photo captures bright blue shock wave around double star system
This image features a deep field view of the Cassiopeia constellation immersed in the glow of ionized hydrogen gas, where the ...
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NASA extends missions of 'deep space rock stars'
March 5 (UPI) --Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have conserved energy supplies on the record-setting Voyager 1 & 2 deep space probes nearly 50 years after their missions launched to ...
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Power saver mode: Nasa switches off instrument aboard Voyager 2 to conserve energy
The move is part of an effort to extend the life of the 47-year-old spacecraft, which is currently operating in interstellar space—the vast region beyond our solar system. Suzanne Dodd, Voyager ...
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Voyager 1 has just awakened — We thought he would never do it
The Voyager space flights have revealed unprecedented data on 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 ...
Saturn’s rings to ‘vanish’ this weekend: What to know
The rings, believed to be made up of rocky and icy chunks that could be as large as a house, help separate Saturn from other planets in our solar system. They’re also about to perform a vanishing ...