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It's a NASA morning for me... this is really remarkable that Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is not 18 billion miles from earth and about the exit the magnetic bubble the sun puts out around the entire solar system. It will be sending back data on the nature of the magnetic field outside of the heliosphere.
It blows me away that this thing is still working, 35 years after launch, and still sending back data. Godspeed, little spacecraft!
thenewgreen · 4295 days ago · link ·
Talk about exceeding expectations. The voyager program should go down as one of the greatest human achievements to date.
I think the saddest possibility will be radio silence - which may or may not tell us anything, you know?
Did it get annihilated? Did it get pulled into a greater magnetic field that we can't see and it somehow turned in such a way that it can't send comms back to us? Is there something outside the heliosphere that prevents those radio waves from coming back in? I hope for the best and fear the worst in this scenario.
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