"By comparison, light traveling from the Sun takes about eight minutes to reach Earth," NASA said in its statement. Mission operators are still able to communicate with Voyager 2, although it currently takes 16.5 hours for information to travel from the probe back to Earth since the data is moving at the speed of light. nulling method requires less space and calibration complexity as the nulling method (albeit still. To have the Voyagers sending back information about the edge of the sun's influence gives us an unprecedented glimpse of truly uncharted territory," she added.īoth the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 launched from the US in 1977 and have carried out flyby missions on Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - extending long past their five-year lifespans. Table 2 : Probe dimensions for the two probes sizes. "Our studies start at the sun and extend out to everything the solar wind touches.
Nicola Fox, director of the Heliophysics Division at NASA Headquarters, said in a statement that the Voyager probes have a "special place" in her department. 'Unprecedented glimpse' into interstellar space Both the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 launched from the US in 1977
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