![]() People were stunned by the detail in Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, captured by the Voyager spacecraft. After that, they will be moving outward still, silent messengers from Earth to the cosmos. Afterwards, they will continuing moving outward from Earth through interstellar space – the space between the stars – fueled by nuclear batteries that will keep them transmitting sparse information back to Earth, albeit in a powered-down state, until around 2020. Their mission currently is to explore the outermost reaches of the sun’s influence. After their treasured discoveries, Voyager 1 used the gravity of Saturn to fling itself along a path that will carry it out of the solar system, and Voyager 2 used Neptune for a similar boost. and Star Wars was popular), the probes have given the first detailed images of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Since the time of both Voyager launches in 1977 (when Jimmy Carter was president of the U.S. Artist’s illustration of Voyager spacecraft. Each carries a golden record with greetings from Earth in 55 languages, music, and an EEG showing the brain waves of a woman in love. ![]() ![]() The two Voyagers are currently the most distant human-made objects from Earth and the only ones to travel beyond our solar system. After 33 years of travel, the two Voyagers are pushing through the outer boundary of our solar system, preparing to penetrate interstellar space, according to a briefing held by NASA on April 28, 2011. ![]()
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