Thursday 12 September 2013

It's official: Voyager 1 has left the Solar System



After a journey of 36 years, NASA has announced that the Voyager 1 space probe officially left the Solar System on August 25, 2012. Based on new analysis of data sent by by the unmanned spacecraft, the space agency has declared that it is now in the first manmade object to travel into interstellar space, 12 billion miles (19 billion km) from the Sun. .. Continue Reading It's official: Voyager 1 has left the Solar System

Section: Space

Tags: NASA, Solar System, Spacecraft, Voyager

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1 comment:

-Warren Zoell said...

Is it just me or have they been claiming that Voyager has left the solar system over the past 15 years?