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NASA Engineers Activate Thrusters On Voyager 1 Spacecraft, Extending Its Mission Further Beyond Our Solar SystemWhen it comes to exploring space, few things have done it better or longer than the Voyager 1 spacecraft, and it isn’t done ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN1d
Voyager 2 Measured a Rare Anomaly When It Flew Past Uranus, Skewing Our Knowledge of the Planet for 40 Years, Study SuggestsThe roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...
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Still Kickin’ Since the ’70s: NASA’s Voyager Mission Keeps ExploringNASA’s Voyager mission launched in the 1970s. Today, it’s making history as it conducts new science. But how are two ...
If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".
“[Voyager] was designed with nearly everything redundant. Having two spacecraft — right there is a redundancy.” Just last month, the Voyager 1 probe experienced a problem with its thrusters ...
Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which researchers now say overlapped with an exceptional solar event.
"We're definitely going to make the 50th anniversary," says Professor Garry Hunt, one of the scientists responsible for ...
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