NASA powers down Voyager 2 plasma instrument to extend mission
In 2018, the plasma science instrument proved critical in determining that Voyager 2 left the heliosphere. The boundary ...
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Scientists call the region of space influenced by the Sun the heliosphere – but without an interstellar probe, they don’t know much about its shape
Since the heliosphere is so large, it would take a probe decades to reach the boundary, even using a gravity assist from a massive planet like Jupiter. The Voyager spacecraft will no longer be ...
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'A community of galactic civilizations': Jimmy Carter's decades-old message for aliens
Carter, who passed away on Sunday at the age of 100, included the message in two golden records attached to the Voyager spacecrafts, which are charting the edge of space outside the heliosphere ...
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NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope to launch in February — it can do what the JWST can't
SPHEREx will share its ride with the agency's PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, a constellation of four little satellites meant to study the sun. The duo will lift ...
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Nasa's Voyager 1 spacecraft sending gobbledygook data back to Earth
Nasa's Voyager 1 space probe has started sending ... The spacecraft are the only human-made objects to operate beyond the heliosphere, the Sun's bubble of magnetic fields and particles that ...