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Voyager 1 Reaches Edge of Solar System
NASA reports that after 28 years and more than 10000 days of operation Voyager 1 has passed into the border region at the edge of the solar system and now is sending back information about this never-before-explored area. Voyager 1 carries the Golden Record with sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth. You may take a planetary tour here. You may also plan your own tour using freeware Celestia software.
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cool article
cool article!
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Vinyl is so... lame
I think audiophiles have something to learn from the Voyager mission: copper records are way sweeter than vinyl. I'm switching my collection today.
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thank you
I had never heard nor seen anything on the Golden Record. Thank you so much for posting it here. The images sent back from Voyager 1 are just spectacular. All of the pictures from space are a modern day wonder.
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NASA and Google's illegitimate child
NASA and Google recently signed the beginnings of a deal to collaborate on a whole host of different projects. Sounds like a winning program to me - Google's CEO said "Imagine having a wide selection of images from the Apollo space mission at your fingertips whenever you want it. That's just one small example of how this collaboration could [work]."
What I can't figure out is how Google is going to make money off this deal. Of course, I'm the guy that didn't buy their stock because I couldn't figure out how they made money then, either. And didn't that just come back and bite me square on the rump.
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Pioneer 10 by VnutZ :: NR8 :: Show
At first, I was going to ask about Pioneer 10 being the furthest man-made object. But reading revealed that although Pioneer 10 achieved Heliopause first, it was soon passed by Voyager. Scientists were tracking Pioneer 10 through the Deep Space Network before losing it from faint signals and a fading power source. In it\'s waning transmissions last year, scientists were able to study the Pioneer anomaly where an unaccounted force accelerates objects back towards the sun at 8.74x10^-10 m/s2. This effect has been noted on other space objects and radio waves but was more obvious with the Pioneer spacecrafts now 400,000km off the planned trajectory.
It's only a matter of time now before the Klingons destroy it for target practice as predicted in Star Trek. Maybe we should have rigged those plutonium battery cells with a self defense mechanism rather than nude pictures of humans engraved on plates. Interstellar life will think we're a friendly race, easy to push-over during a galactic raid on our planet's resources.