Voyager 1 is currently the only human-made object to enter interstellar space. NASA scientists aren't sure when Voyager 2 will join its twin by crossing the heliosphere boundary, an area known as the heliopause. NASA at 60 NASA's Star Trek dreams aren’t so crazy after all ...
NASA’s Voyager 2 probe, currently on a journey toward interstellar space, has detected an increase in cosmic rays that originate outside our solar system. Launched in 1977, Voyager 2 is a little less than 11 billion miles (about 17.7 billion kilometers) from Earth, or more than 118 times...
Voyager 1 was high above the plane of the solar system after Saturn's flyby, but the spacecraft gathered valuable solar data from its trajectory because of the extension. Another mission extension in 1990 aimed to bring the Voyagers to interstellar space. Voyager 1 crossed into that regio...
It's time to say goodbye to one of the most storied explorers of our age: Voyager 2 has entered interstellar space.
On 5 November 2018, Voyager 2 observed a sharp decrease in the intensity of low-energy ions and a simultaneous increase in the intensity of cosmic rays, indicating that Voyager 2 had crossed the heliopause at 119 au and entered interstellar space about six years after Voyager 1. Unlike ...
When Voyager 1 saw a similar increase in cosmic rays in 2012, it took another three months before it crossed the heliopause — a point widely described as the boundary of interstellar space. However, that doesn’t mean Voyager 2 is on the same timeline. The two spacecraft are on different...
Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, are the only human-made craftto fly into interstellar space. Originally designedto last for five years, both spacecraft have continued to send collected information back to Earth for more than 46 years — until five months ago. ...
NASA has confirmed that Voyager 2 has joined its twin to become only the second spacecraft to enter interstellar space – where the sun's flow of material and magnetic field no longer affect its surroundings. The slightly faster Voyager 1 entered interst
NASA launched the twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft months apart in the summer of 1977 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, as part of a mission to explore where nothing from Earth has flown before, interstellar space. In August 2012, Voyager 1 made its historic entry into interstellar space, and ...
A A. Voyager 2's mission and its achievements. B. The long-standing history of Voyager 2. C. Voyager 2's impact on the solar system. D. New moons discovered by Voyager 2.34. What did Voyager 2 do in the 1980s? B A. It managed to enter interstellar space. B. It neared Neptune ...