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These Voyager Spacecrafts Has Been Sending Messages Back To The Earth Since 1977 by Automotive1(op): 9:28pm On Jul 05, 2018
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These 2 NASA’s Voyager spacecrafts, the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched into space 41 years ago in 1977 to explore the outer planets in our solar system.

Voyager 2 was launched on Aug. 20 while Voyager 1 was launched about two weeks later, on Sept. 5 . Everyday, both spacecrafts send information about their journeys back to NASA on Earth in the form of pictures and sounds.

Presently, Voyager 1 is about 13 billion miles away from Earth ( that's about 137 times the distance from Earth to the Sun). It's now travelling through interstellar space, moving northward out of the plane containing our planets while Voyager 2 is 11 billion miles away from Earth, and moving southward.

Voyager 1's datas takes about 19 hours to reach Earth while signals from Voyager 2 takes about 16 hours - compared to rovers signals that takes 20 minutes to reach Earth from Mars.

Both Voyagers have seen a lot over the years, including Voyager 2’s flyby of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io, an Earth-like atmosphere on Saturn’s moon Titan and geysers of icy cold nitrogen on Neptune’s moon Triton.

Voyager 1 was the first and currently the only spacecraft to leave our solar system by entering the interstellar space (i.e. the part of space that exists between stars ) in Aug. 2012, 35 years after its travel began. Voyager 2 is also expected to interstellar space relatively soon.

Both Voyagers are powered with three radioisotope thermoelectric generators that will give them enough power to last over a hundred years. But their fading power reserves due to the incredible cold of outer space means Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 will soon run out of juice by late 2020's.

With their current trajectories and speeds exceeding 48,280 kilometers per hour (30,000 miles per hour), both spacecrafts will be completing an orbit within the Milky Way every 225 million years.

The Voyager 1's next big encounter will take place in 40,000 years time , when it comes within 1.7 light-years of the star AC +79 3888.

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But Voyager 1's falling power supply means it will stop transmitting datas ( pics and sounds) by 2025, which means no data will flow back from that distant location back to NASA on Earth.

Since both Voyagers could last billions of years ,each of them carries a Golden Record of Earth sounds like greetings in 55 different languages, pictures and messages, in case an intelligent life forms from other planetary systems (Aliens) finds them.

What do you think?

https://autojosh.com/these-voyager-spacecrafts-has-been-sending-messages-back-to-the-earth-since-1977/

Cc Lalasticlala Mynd44 Seun Mukina2
Re: These Voyager Spacecrafts Has Been Sending Messages Back To The Earth Since 1977 by oshe11: 9:58pm On Jul 05, 2018
You are calling Mods

Wetin concern Us with this kinda news?

Like say you yourself understood the article and diagrams above

Re: These Voyager Spacecrafts Has Been Sending Messages Back To The Earth Since 1977 by panafrican(m): 10:43pm On Jul 05, 2018
Automotive1:
https://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img923/7209/2phDzu.jpg

https://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img923/992/lqbwI7.jpg

These 2 NASA’s Voyager spacecrafts, the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched into space 41 years ago in 1977 to explore the outer planets in our solar system.

Voyager 2 was launched on Aug. 20 while Voyager 1 was launched about two weeks later, on Sept. 5 . Everyday, both spacecrafts send information about their journeys back to NASA on Earth in the form of pictures and sounds.

Presently, Voyager 1 is about 13 billion miles away from Earth ( that's about 137 times the distance from Earth to the Sun). It's now travelling through interstellar space, moving northward out of the plane containing our planets while Voyager 2 is 11 billion miles away from Earth, and moving southward.

Voyager 1's datas takes about 19 hours to reach Earth while signals from Voyager 2 takes about 16 hours - compared to rovers signals that takes 20 minutes to reach Earth from Mars.

Both Voyagers have seen a lot over the years, including Voyager 2’s flyby of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io, an Earth-like atmosphere on Saturn’s moon Titan and geysers of icy cold nitrogen on Neptune’s moon Triton.

Voyager 1 was the first and currently the only spacecraft to leave our solar system by entering the interstellar space (i.e. the part of space that exists between stars ) in Aug. 2012, 35 years after its travel began. Voyager 2 is also expected to interstellar space relatively soon.

Both Voyagers are powered with three radioisotope thermoelectric generators that will give them enough power to last over a hundred years. But their fading power reserves due to the incredible cold of outer space means Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 will soon run out of juice by late 2020's.

With their current trajectories and speeds exceeding 48,280 kilometers per hour (30,000 miles per hour), both spacecrafts will be completing an orbit within the Milky Way every 225 million years.

The Voyager 1's next big encounter will take place in 40,000 years time , when it comes within 1.7 light-years of the star AC +79 3888.

https://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img924/2079/4xgEIQ.jpg

But Voyager 1's falling power supply means it will stop transmitting datas ( pics and sounds) by 2025, which means no data will flow back from that distant location back to NASA on Earth.

Since both Voyagers could last billions of years ,each of them carries a Golden Record of Earth sounds like greetings in 55 different languages, pictures and messages, in case an intelligent life forms from other planetary systems (Aliens) finds them.

What do you think?

https://autojosh.com/these-voyager-spacecrafts-has-been-sending-messages-back-to-the-earth-since-1977/

Cc Lalasticlala Mynd44 Seun Mukina2
It is great. One wishes the other way. Our civilization luckily finding a golden spacecraft containing pictures, sounds and video images from another galaxy.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6nayu3BxHM
Re: These Voyager Spacecrafts Has Been Sending Messages Back To The Earth Since 1977 by Aldebaran(m): 1:42pm On Jul 06, 2018
Amazing World of Science grin
Re: These Voyager Spacecrafts Has Been Sending Messages Back To The Earth Since 1977 by Omololu001: 8:57am On Jul 08, 2018
This is beautiful
Re: These Voyager Spacecrafts Has Been Sending Messages Back To The Earth Since 1977 by GMbuharii: 12:07pm On Jul 08, 2018
Omololu001:
This is beautiful
we yaff hear..u better finish schittin under the bridge there @ oshogbo before that beautiful spacecraft send down ur pic grin

lzaa
Re: These Voyager Spacecrafts Has Been Sending Messages Back To The Earth Since 1977 by LZAA: 12:42pm On Jul 08, 2018
GMbuharii:
we yaff hear..u better finish schittin under the bridge there @ oshogbo before that beautiful spacecraft send down ur pic grin

lzaa
grin
Re: These Voyager Spacecrafts Has Been Sending Messages Back To The Earth Since 1977 by GMbuharii: 1:02pm On Jul 08, 2018
Voyager1's view of coneheads from jupiter grin
Re: These Voyager Spacecrafts Has Been Sending Messages Back To The Earth Since 1977 by GMbuharii: 1:03pm On Jul 08, 2018
Voyager1's view of coneheads from jupiter grin
Re: These Voyager Spacecrafts Has Been Sending Messages Back To The Earth Since 1977 by Aldebaran(m): 1:50pm On Jul 08, 2018
oshe11:
You are calling Mods


Wetin concern Us with this kinda news?


Like say you yourself understood the article and diagrams above
Don't tell me you can't comprehend the above...

Are you one of the lazy Nigerian youths? cheesy
Re: These Voyager Spacecrafts Has Been Sending Messages Back To The Earth Since 1977 by oshe11: 2:06pm On Jul 08, 2018
Aldebaran:
Don't tell me you can't comprehend the above...
Are you one of the lazy Nigerian youths? cheesy
I do!
But of what importance is that to Us?
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