Voyager 1
Spacecraft
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True/Slant | November 03, 2009
Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot, Revisited
...we? Just a lonely nano-speck on a lonely speck? Mellinger's photos reminded me of this one: In 1990, and 3.7 billion miles from Earth, Voyager 1 took our picture. We are, as scientist Carl Sagan poetically titled the photograph, the "pale...
In this article: Carl Sagan, Gizmodo, Pale Blue Dot, Ideology, Pale Blue Dot, Delusion, and Milky Way galaxy
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Cool Hunting | October 20, 2009
Fifty Years of Exploration: Space Infographic
...in various planets and comets. Also noted, the current positions held by spacecrafts like the Pioneer10 and robotic probes such as Voyager 1, along with current expeditions including the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Messenger...
In this article: Messenger, New Horizons, Princeton Architectural Press, GOOD Magazine, Parson's School of Design, Flickr, and Mercury
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NASA Breaking News | October 19, 2009
NASA Spacecraft Provides First View of Our Place in the Galaxy
...launched in 1977, traveled to the outer solar system to explore Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. In 2007, Voyager 2 followed Voyager 1 into the interstellar boundary. Both spacecraft are now in the midst of this region where the...
In this article: NASA, Voyager 2, Cassini, Southwest Research Institute, Saturn, and Washington
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Wired Top Stories | October 15, 2009
Edge of Solar System Is Not What We Expected
...we thought we know a lot about this region, the edge of the heliosphere," McComas says. The Voyager 1 craft in 2004 (Science News: 1/3/04, p. 7) and the Voyager 2 craft in 2007 (Science News: 8/2/08, p. 7) journeyed to opposite sides of this...
In this article: Magnetic field, Oxygen, Voyager 2, Cassini, Hydrogen atom, and Helium
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Science News Online | October 15, 2009
Galaxy edge surprises astronomers
...we thought we know a lot about this region, the edge of the heliosphere," McComas says. The Voyager 1 craft in 2004 (SN: 1/3/04, p. 7) and the Voyager 2 craft in 2007 (SN: 8/2/08, p. 7) journeyed to opposite sides of this fringe region of the...
In this article: Magnetic field, Oxygen, Voyager 2, Cassini, Hydrogen atom, Helium, and Southwest Research Institute
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information aesthetics | October 14, 2009
50 Years of Space Exploration in One Infographic
...on the bottom shows the relative distances in interstellar space, and the current positions of our most distant spacecrafts, such as the Voyager 1 and Pioneer 10. However, the most persuasive part is the nice visual accumulation of fly paths...
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National Geographic News | October 14, 2009
Mystery Space Ribbon Found at Solar System's Edge
...been exploring the solar system's boundary since 2004 and 2007, respectively. (Related: "Voyager Probes Send Surprises From Solar System's Edge.") Voyager data, taken from specific regions within the boundary zone, had offered no hint...
In this article: Voyager 2, Magnetic field, NASA, Stevie Wonder, National Geographic News, and Southwest Research Institute
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Telegraph.co.uk - All news | October 09, 2009
LCROSS moon bomb: Nasa's greatest missions from Apollo to Voyager
...- all the planets seen together from the outside. But for all their scientific value, it is the symbolism that makes Voyager truly special. Voyager 1 represents the furthest any human-made object has gone from Earth - currently around 10...
In this article: NASA, Voyager, Apollo, Moon, Earth, Explorer 1, Edwin Hubble, Mars rover, and Viking
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Telegraph.co.uk - Science news | September 28, 2009
SETI at 50: 10 key moments in the search for extraterrestrial life
...Intelligence, or SETI, is 50 years old this month. We look at 10 memorable events in the search for life on other planets. In 2015, Voyager 1 will become the first man-made object to leave the solar system Photo: NASA SETI was founded...
In this article: Frank Drake, NASA, Mars, Sun, Photon, Speed of light, Kepler Mission, and Voyager
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Wired Top Stories | August 20, 2009
Aug. 21, 1989: Voyager 2 Reaches Triton
...mission completed, Voyager 2 continued on to make observations of Uranus and Neptune, while Voyager 1 hightailed it toward the edge of the solar system. Voyager 2's flyby of Triton was the spacecraft's last contact with a major heavenly body...
In this article: Voyager 2, Triton, Triton, NASA, Neptune, Methane, E mail, Saturn, and Jupiter
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The Voyager 1 spacecraft is a 722-kilogram (1,592 lb) robotic space probe of the outer Solar System and beyond, launched September 5, 1977. It remains operational, currently pursuing its extended mission to locate and study the boundaries of the Solar System, including the Kuiper belt and beyond. Its original mission was to visit Jupiter and Saturn; and it was the first probe to provide detailed images of the moons of these planets.
Voyager 1 had as its primary targets the planets Jupiter and Saturn and their associated moons and rings; its current mission is the detection of the heliopause and particle measurements of solar wind and the interstellar medium. Both of the Voyager probes have far outlasted their originally-planned lifespan. Each probe gets its electrical power from three radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs), which are expected to continue to generate enough electric power to let the probes keep communicating with Earth at least until the year 2025.
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