Seeing as the Voyager-1 spacecraft has been in the news recently, here’s the story of a very special photograph that it took 23 years ago known as “The Pale Blue Dot”. In 1990, 13 years after Voyager-1 left Earth on its mission to visit two of the gas giants and their moons of our solar [...]
Voyager Spacecrafts Traveling Since 1977, Make it to Edge of Solar System
June 23, 2012 | Posted by
The Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched from Earth in 1977, will be the first man-made object to leave the solar system within the next year or two, scientists from NASA report. “We are approaching the solar system’s frontier,” said Ed Stone, Voyager project scientist at CalTech in Pasadena, Calif. The spacecraft is billions of miles beyond [...]
