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Both are in interstellar space: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/ https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/ Voyager 1 flew beyond the heliopause
by WalterGR 4y ago
Both are in interstellar space: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/ https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/
Voyager 1 flew beyond the heliopause in 2012; Voyager 2 in 2018: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/interstellar-mission/ https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/interstellar-mission/
- freeflight 4y agoWas disappointed to see so many of their systems offline, thinking they broke, but clicking on their status reveals that most of the systems are actually turned off to save power, including; > "Wide-angle and narrow-angle cameras off to save power (Feb. 14, 1990)" One of the last photos Voyager 1 took back then was looking back at Earth as a Pale Blue Dot [0] Makes me wonder if those cameras could be turned back on, in case one of the Voyagers comes across something interesting? [0] https://www.space.com/pale-blue-dot-voyager-1-photo-30th-anniversary.html https://www.space.com/pale-blue-dot-voyager-1-photo-30th-ann...
- ISL 4y agoIt's a power problem. The radiothermal generator's power output decays exponentially. The PBD photo was taken at approximately the last time that the cameras could be used.
- ISL 4y agoThank you for sharing the upper link. It is serially inspiring. Watching the distances crawl up by many miles/second is kinda bonkers, and the 3D view allows the mind's eye to imagine a new pale-blue dot photo that encompasses every planet we've ever known.
- take_it_not 4y agodang I didn’t know they are so fast…38,210 mph! this is crazy, i could not imagine seeing it pass thru…
- vibrio 4y agoI honestly don’t even know what that number means in interstellar space.