americans return to space as discovery clears the tower
nothing lasts forever and all good things must come to an end
the voyager spacecrafts encountered jupiter saturn uranus and neptune four of the solar
system's biggest planets and returned with a wealth of surprises and discoveries
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together the voyagers have taught us a great deal about the extent of our son's
influence and the very nature of space that lies beyond the planets in our solar system
the voyager spacecrafts were meant to survive for only five years and their main goal was to
investigate jupiter and saturn not only did they achieve that but also successfully escaped the
heated plasma bubble known as the heliopause which marks the beginning of our solar system's edge
well this is just contributes to the number of discoveries that voyager has been making
and this is one we hoped we would have the chance to do and fortunately
the supposed spacecraft were still operating when they reached interstellar space it's really quite
quite remarkable voyager changed our view of the solar system really i mean we saw these active
volcanic activity on io we saw possibility of ocean on europa just time after time we
were discovering things that we had not really even imagined some years before voyager mission
what makes it so exciting is not only do we confirm what we thought we knew but
even better it tells us where we didn't know that there was something to be discovered
the voyager probes not only succeeded in reaching this interstellar space
but also sent back valuable audio data as to what it sounds like
the voyager spacecrafts are nearing the end of their journey
after travelling farther from earth than any other man-made object
the two man-made objects most distant from earth are slowly powering down
by 2025 or perhaps a little later the voyager twins will be completely bereft of power however
both the spacecrafts will keep traveling heading further and further out of the solar system
their work will not be forgotten anytime soon