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It should take another 300 years for NASA’s Voyager 1 probe to reach the most distant region of our solar system. Until then, it’s cruising through the void between the stars.
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Voyagers 1 and 2 are exploring the mysterious region between stars called interstellar space.
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NASA launched the twin probes in 1977 for a five-year mission to trek across the solar system.
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It should take Voyager 1 40,000 years to reach another star, according to the space agency.
Some 14.8 billion miles from Earth, the Voyager 1 probe is cruising through the blackness of the interstellar medium — the unexplored space between stars. It’s the furthest human-made object from our planet.
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 launched in 1977 within 16 days of one another with a design lifetime of five years to study Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and their respective moons up close.
Now 45 years into their mission, they’ve each made history by boldly venturing beyond the boundary of our sun’s influence, known as the heliopause.
Both plucky spacecraft continue to send data back from beyond the solar system — and their cosmic journeys are far from over.
In 300 years, Voyager 1 could see the Oort Cloud, and in 296,000 years, Voyager 2 could pass by Sirius
As part of an ongoing power-management effort that has ramped up in recent years, engineers have been powering down non-technical systems on board the Voyager probes, like their science-instruments heaters, hoping to keep them going through 2030.
After that, the probes will likely lose their ability to communicate with Earth.
Still, even after NASA shuts down their instruments and calls the Voyager mission to an end, the twin probes will continue to drift out in interstellar space.
NASA said that about 300 years from now, Voyager 1 should enter the Oort Cloud, a hypothetical spherical band full of billions of frozen comets. It should take another 30,000 years to reach the end of it.
The spacecraft are taking different paths as they head out into deep space. Voyager 2 is only about 12.3 billion miles away from Earth today.
It should take the Voyager 1 probe approximately 40,000 years to reach AC+79 3888, a star in the constellation Camelopardalis, according to NASA.
The agency added that in some 296,000 years, Voyager 2 should drift by Sirius, the brightest star in the sky.
“The Voyagers are destined — perhaps eternally — to wander the Milky Way,” NASA said.
‘It’s really remarkable that both spacecraft are still operating’
NASA designed the twin spacecraft to study the outer solar system. After completing their primary mission, the Voyagers kept chugging along, taking a grand tour of our solar system and capturing breathtaking cosmic views.
On February 14, 1990, the Voyager 1 spacecraft captured the “Pale Blue Dot” image from almost 4 billion miles away. It’s an iconic image of Earth within a scattered ray of sunlight, and it’s the farthest view of Earth any spacecraft has captured.
For the last decade, Voyager 1 has been exploring interstellar space, which is full of gas, dust, and charged energetic particles. Voyager 2 reached interstellar space in 2018, six years after its twin.
Their observations of the interstellar gas they’re moving through has revolutionized astronomers’ understanding of this unexplored space beyond our own cosmic backyard.
“It’s really remarkable that both spacecraft are still operating and operating well — little glitches, but operating extremely well and still sending back this valuable data,” Suzanne Dodd, the project manager for the Voyager mission at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, previously told Insider, adding, “They’re still talking to us.”
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It should take another 300 years for NASA’s Voyager 1 probe to reach the most distant region of our solar system. Until then, it’s cruising through the void between the stars.
-
Voyagers 1 and 2 are exploring the mysterious region between stars called interstellar space.
-
NASA launched the twin probes in 1977 for a five-year mission to trek across the solar system.
-
It should take Voyager 1 40,000 years to reach another star, according to the space agency.
Some 14.8 billion miles from Earth, the Voyager 1 probe is cruising through the blackness of the interstellar medium — the unexplored space between stars. It’s the furthest human-made object from our planet.
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 launched in 1977 within 16 days of one another with a design lifetime of five years to study Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and their respective moons up close.
Now 45 years into their mission, they’ve each made history by boldly venturing beyond the boundary of our sun’s influence, known as the heliopause.
Both plucky spacecraft continue to send data back from beyond the solar system — and their cosmic journeys are far from over.
In 300 years, Voyager 1 could see the Oort Cloud, and in 296,000 years, Voyager 2 could pass by Sirius
As part of an ongoing power-management effort that has ramped up in recent years, engineers have been powering down non-technical systems on board the Voyager probes, like their science-instruments heaters, hoping to keep them going through 2030.
After that, the probes will likely lose their ability to communicate with Earth.
Still, even after NASA shuts down their instruments and calls the Voyager mission to an end, the twin probes will continue to drift out in interstellar space.
NASA said that about 300 years from now, Voyager 1 should enter the Oort Cloud, a hypothetical spherical band full of billions of frozen comets. It should take another 30,000 years to reach the end of it.
The spacecraft are taking different paths as they head out into deep space. Voyager 2 is only about 12.3 billion miles away from Earth today.
It should take the Voyager 1 probe approximately 40,000 years to reach AC+79 3888, a star in the constellation Camelopardalis, according to NASA.
The agency added that in some 296,000 years, Voyager 2 should drift by Sirius, the brightest star in the sky.
“The Voyagers are destined — perhaps eternally — to wander the Milky Way,” NASA said.
‘It’s really remarkable that both spacecraft are still operating’
NASA designed the twin spacecraft to study the outer solar system. After completing their primary mission, the Voyagers kept chugging along, taking a grand tour of our solar system and capturing breathtaking cosmic views.
On February 14, 1990, the Voyager 1 spacecraft captured the “Pale Blue Dot” image from almost 4 billion miles away. It’s an iconic image of Earth within a scattered ray of sunlight, and it’s the farthest view of Earth any spacecraft has captured.
For the last decade, Voyager 1 has been exploring interstellar space, which is full of gas, dust, and charged energetic particles. Voyager 2 reached interstellar space in 2018, six years after its twin.
Their observations of the interstellar gas they’re moving through has revolutionized astronomers’ understanding of this unexplored space beyond our own cosmic backyard.
“It’s really remarkable that both spacecraft are still operating and operating well — little glitches, but operating extremely well and still sending back this valuable data,” Suzanne Dodd, the project manager for the Voyager mission at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, previously told Insider, adding, “They’re still talking to us.”
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What the Voyager Probes Should See Next: Oort Cloud, Other Stars
- Voyagers 1 and 2 are exploring the mysterious region between stars called interstellar space.
- NASA launched the twin probes in 1977 for a five-year mission to trek across the solar system.
- It should take Voyager 1 40,000 years to reach another star, according to the space agency.
Some 14.8 billion miles from Earth, the Voyager 1 probe is cruising through the blackness of the interstellar medium — the unexplored space between stars. It’s the furthest human-made object from our planet.
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 launched in 1977 within 16 days of one another with a design lifetime of five years to study Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and their respective moons up close.
Now 45 years into their mission, they’ve each made history by boldly venturing beyond the boundary of our sun’s influence, known as the heliopause.
Both plucky spacecraft continue to send data back from beyond the solar system — and their cosmic journeys are far from over.
NASA/JPL-Caltech
In 300 years, Voyager 1 could see the Oort Cloud, and in 296,000 years, Voyager 2 could pass by Sirius
As part of an ongoing power-management effort that has ramped up in recent years, engineers have been powering down non-technical systems on board the Voyager probes, like their science-instruments heaters, hoping to keep them going through 2030.
After that, the probes will likely lose their ability to communicate with Earth.
Still, even after NASA shuts down their instruments and calls the Voyager mission to an end, the twin probes will continue to drift out in interstellar space.
NASA said that about 300 years from now, Voyager 1 should enter the Oort Cloud, a hypothetical spherical band full of billions of frozen comets. It should take another 30,000 years to reach the end of it.
NASA
The spacecraft are taking different paths as they head out into deep space. Voyager 2 is only about 12.3 billion miles away from Earth today.
It should take the Voyager 1 probe approximately 40,000 years to reach AC+79 3888, a star in the constellation Camelopardalis, according to NASA.
The agency added that in some 296,000 years, Voyager 2 should drift by Sirius, the brightest star in the sky.
“The Voyagers are destined — perhaps eternally — to wander the Milky Way,” NASA said.
NASA, ESA, H. Bond (STScI), and M. Barstow (University of Leicester)
‘It’s really remarkable that both spacecraft are still operating’
NASA designed the twin spacecraft to study the outer solar system. After completing their primary mission, the Voyagers kept chugging along, taking a grand tour of our solar system and capturing breathtaking cosmic views.
On February 14, 1990, the Voyager 1 spacecraft captured the “Pale Blue Dot” image from almost 4 billion miles away. It’s an iconic image of Earth within a scattered ray of sunlight, and it’s the farthest view of Earth any spacecraft has captured.
NASA/JPL-Caltech
For the last decade, Voyager 1 has been exploring interstellar space, which is full of gas, dust, and charged energetic particles. Voyager 2 reached interstellar space in 2018, six years after its twin.
Their observations of the interstellar gas they’re moving through has revolutionized astronomers’ understanding of this unexplored space beyond our own cosmic backyard.
“It’s really remarkable that both spacecraft are still operating and operating well — little glitches, but operating extremely well and still sending back this valuable data,” Suzanne Dodd, the project manager for the Voyager mission at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, previously told Insider, adding, “They’re still talking to us.”
NASA’s Voyager probes are slowly powering down. Here are 18 groundbreaking photos from their 45-year mission.
The Voyager probes are pioneers of science, making it further into space than any other man-made object.
NASA originally sent the twin probes on a four-year mission to Jupiter and Saturn in 1977; they exceeded all expectations, and are still going 45 years later – making it NASA’s longest-lived mission.
Amazing photos of the solar system are among the achievements they beamed back before NASA shut the cameras down.
But now, they face a terminal problem: their power is running out and NASA scientists are shutting down more instruments on board to conserve energy.
As they near the end of their mission, here are 18 images from Voyager that changed science:
The Voyager probes were designed to visit Jupiter and Saturn.
The Voyager mission included two probes — Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 — which NASA launched in 1977 within a few months of each other.
The launches capitalized on a rare alignment of planets that allowed them to turbocharge their journeys into space.
NASA originally built the probes to last five years, but have exceeded that lifespan many times.
On Sept 9, 2022, the probes had been traveling for 45 years.
This is what Voyager 1 saw on its approach to Jupiter.
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 reached Jupiter in 1979. They took about 50,000 pictures of the planet in total, which greatly exceeded the quality of the pictures scientists took from Earth, according to NASA.
The pictures taught scientists important facts about the planet’s atmosphere, magnetic forces, and geology that would have been difficult to decipher otherwise.
The probes discovered two new moons orbiting Jupiter: Thebe and Metis….
…as well as a thin ring around Jupiter.
The probe captured this picture as it was looking back at the planet backlit by the Sun.
Voyager 1’s biggest discovery was volcanic activity at the surface of Io, one of Jupiter’s moons.
Next stop: Saturn
In 1980 and 1981, the probes reached Saturn. The flyby gave scientists unprecedented insight into the planet’s ring structure, atmosphere, and moons.
Voyager taught scientists about the detail of Saturn’s rings.
Voyager captured Enceladus, Saturn’s moon, in unprecedented detail.
This picture, taken as the probe flew away, provided a unique view of the planet.
By 1986, Voyager 2 had made it to Uranus
Voyager 1 continued straight on and would not come across another planet on its journey out of the solar system.
But Voyager 2 kept on its exploration of our nearest planets, passing within 50,600 miles of Uranus in January 1986.
It discovered an extra two rings around Uranus, revealing the planet had at least 11, not 9.
Its pictures of Uranus’ largest moons also uncovered 11 previously unseen moons.
Here is a picture of a Miranda, Uranus’s sixth-biggest moon.
Voyager 2 was the first spacecraft to observe Neptune from a close distance.
In 1989, 12 years after its launch, Voyager 2 passed within 3,000 miles of Neptune.
A picture shows the blue Neptune in full.
A picture shows Triton’s rough surface.
It captured Triton, Neptune’s moon in unprecedented detail.
Another shows Triton’s southern hemisphere.
It captured Neptune’s rings.
Here, Voyager saw the crescent shape of Neptune’s south pole as it departed.
Voyager 2 would never take pictures again. Since it wouldn’t come across another planet on its ongoing journey, NASA switched off its cameras after its flyby of Neptune to conserve energy for other instruments.
Voyager took 60 images of the solar system from about 4 billion miles away.
As its last photographic hurrah, Voyager 1 took 60 images of the solar system from 4 billion miles away in 1990.
It gave us the Earth’s most distant self-portrait, dubbed the “pale blue dot.”
This is likely to remain the longest-range selfie in the history of humankind for some time: a portrait of the Earth from 4 billion miles away.
After this picture, NASA switched off Voyager 1’s cameras to save energy. NASA could switch the probes’ cameras back on, but it is not a priority for the mission.
Beyond the solar system
Though the probes are no longer sending pictures, they haven’t stopped sending crucial information about space.
In 2012, Voyager 1 became the first human-made instrument to cross into interstellar space by passing the heliopause, the boundary between our solar system and the rest of the universe.
Voyager 2 was the second, crossing the boundary in 2018. It then revealed there was an extra boundary surrounding our solar bubble.
The probes keep sending back measurements from interstellar space, like weird hums likely coming from vibrations made by neighboring stars.
Even after their instruments are switched off, the probes’ mission continues.
Now NASA is planning to switch more off the probes’ instruments with the hope of extending their life to the 2030s.
But even after all instruments become quiet, the probes will still drift off carrying the golden record, which could provide crucial information about humanity should intelligent extraterrestrial life exist and should it come across the probes.
This article was originally published on June 6, 2022.
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NASA’s iconic Voyager 1 marks 45 years in space
NASA’s venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached a key milestone.
The Voyager 1 probe launched 45 years ago, on Sept. 5, 1977, just weeks after its twin Voyager 2 but soon overtaking it. The two spacecraft were designed to fly past Jupiter and Saturn, taking advantage of a favorable solar system alignment. At the time, no one expected the spacecraft to still be working more than four decades later. But now, the Voyagers are stretching toward a round 50 years in space. Voyager 1 is currently more than 14.6 billion miles (23.5 billion kilometers) from Earth — that’s more than 157 times the distance from our planet to the sun — and is traveling outward at a speed of 38,000 mph (60,000 kph).
“Today, as both Voyagers explore interstellar space, they are providing humanity with observations of uncharted territory,” Linda Spilker, Voyager’s deputy project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, said in a statement (opens in new tab).
Gallery: Celebrate 45 years of Voyager with these amazing images of our solar system
Voyager 1 in particular has something to celebrate with this anniversary, since NASA recently managed to fix a glitch that had caused the spacecraft to rely on a defunct computer, which led to the probe sending gibberish data home to Earth.
Although mission personnel have gotten the spacecraft back on track, they’re still looking into what triggered the switch, according to a NASA statement.
After the 1977 launch, the mission’s milestones came fast. Voyager 1 got its first look at Jupiter in April 1978 and made its closest approach to the massive planet in March 1979. The spacecraft also caught glimpses of Jupiter’s moons, including Io, the strange volcanic surface of which Voyager 1 unveiled.
Then, the probe headed out to Saturn and its largest moon, Titan, making its flyby in November 1979, just over two years after launch. Voyager 1’s detour to catch a closer look at Titan meant it didn’t make any more flybys; its twin Voyager 2 instead continued sailing out to Uranus and Neptune.
Voyager 1 became the most distant human-made object in 1998, according to NASA (opens in new tab), and marked 100 times the distance from Earth to the sun in 2006.
In 2012, Voyager 1 entered interstellar space, the region beyond the heliosphere, which is the bubble formed by charged particles constantly streaming off the sun and out into space. Beyond the heliosphere, the spacecraft registers far more cosmic rays — fragments of atoms that zip through space — than solar particles.
“This is the first time we’ve been able to directly study how a star, our sun, interacts with the particles and magnetic fields outside our heliosphere,” Spilker added, “helping scientists understand the local neighborhood between the stars, upending some of the theories about this region and providing key information for future missions.”
Although four instruments on the Voyager 1 probe are still gathering data to send to Earth, mission personnel expect they will need to turn off additional instruments as time passes and the probe’s nuclear power source weakens.
Eventually, the twin probes will fall silent — although they will continue to zip through space for billions of years.
“The Voyagers have continued to make amazing discoveries, inspiring a new generation of scientists and engineers,” Suzanne Dodd, project manager for Voyager at JPL, said in the same statement. “We don’t know how long the mission will continue, but we can be sure that the spacecraft will provide even more scientific surprises as they travel farther away from the Earth.”
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