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Voyager 2 has been "leaving the Solar System" regularly for quite a while now. Example from 2007: https://www.nature.com/news/2007/071210/full/news.2007.365.htm
by raquo 8y ago
Voyager 2 has been "leaving the Solar System" regularly for quite a while now. Example from 2007: https://www.nature.com/news/2007/071210/full/news.2007.365.html https://www.nature.com/news/2007/071210/full/news.2007.365.h...
I guess the actual thresholds crossed are different but at this point who cares, unless you actually know those thresholds. It's out there and getting farther out. Yay.
If you can't describe an achievement without sensationalizing the hell out of it for the Nth time, maybe don't describe it.
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- quickthrower2 8y agoVoyager 2 is leaving the atmosphere!
- m3at 8y agoSomeone has been counting: https://m.xkcd.com/1189/ https://m.xkcd.com/1189/
- ohiovr 8y agoI was wondering if I had deja vue over the probe leaving the solar system.
- gadders 8y agoI came here to say this. I was sure I had read it before.
- celias 8y agoIn some sense the Voyager spacecraft have been leaving the solar system since launch. :) As the Nature article points out, Voyager 2 crossed the termination shock in 2007, entering the heliosheath. The recent announcement is about Voyager 2 exiting the heliosphere and entering interstellar space. Here's a nice graphic that shows the various regions - https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia22835a_20181206_voyager_in_interstellar_space_annotated_1920x1080_72dpi-final.png https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pi...