Guess who's back? 🚀 NASA's Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft cruising through space, is chatting with us again! 🌠
After a pesky computer glitch last November, Voyager 1's four trusty instruments went silent. But good news, space fans: the team at Jet Propulsion Laboratory received meaningful data again in April, and now our cosmic traveler is back to exploring the unknown! 🌌
Launched way back in 1977 (yes, your parents might remember that!), Voyager 1 has journeyed beyond our solar system into interstellar space—the vast playground between the stars. Before it soared into this uncharted territory, it discovered a thin ring around Jupiter and snapped pics of Saturn's moons. Talk about an overachiever! 📸
Now, it's over 24 billion kilometers away—that's like traveling around Earth over 600,000 times! Its twin, Voyager 2, isn't too far behind, at more than 19 billion kilometers from home. Both are busy collecting info on plasma waves, magnetic fields, and space particles. Science is so cool, right? 🧪
So, next time you look up at the night sky, give a wink to Voyager 1. Even from way out there, it's still keeping in touch. 🌃✨
Reference(s):
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