NASA's spacecraft, Voyager 2 arrives at the outermost of solar system
News24xx.com - For the second time in history, man-made objects have penetrated the outermost layers of the Solar System. Voyager 2, NASA's spacecraft, managed to do this. Previously, a similar thing had been done by its twin, Voyager 1, in 2012. The difference is, unlike its twin, Voyager 2 is still active in collecting data from the environment it stops by.
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Now, Voyager 2 is more than 18 billion kilometers from Earth. However, this mission operator can still communicate with the space vehicle. It's just that, the information from it that travels at the speed of light, takes about 16.5 hours to get to Earth. In comparison, sunlight takes eight minutes to reach Blue Planet.
Interestingly, Voyager 2 was actually launched 16 days earlier than Voyager 1. Both were released in 1977. Because the route it took was different, so Voyager 1 came out of the Solar System first. In addition, they were actually made to last for five years in space to observe Jupiter and Saturn.
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Unexpectedly, they continued their mission to Uranus, Neptune, and even more so outside the Solar System. Voyager 2 also bears the longest mission space vehicle, as stated on NASA's official website.
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