Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
The Voyager 2 spacecraft was launched 41 years ago, and is now 11 billion miles from Earth. While that itself is amazing, it is even more staggering that the spacecraft is still sending back data, decades after the communication system was expected to fail.
Voyager 2 measures cosmic rays. A recent increase in the number of cosmic rays detected indicate that the spacecraft is reaching the edge of the heliosphere, the limit of our sun’s solar wind.It’s believed that the heliosphere blocks a lot of…
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