dianna
13th September 2013, 14:22
Ladies and gentlemen, Voyager I has left the building… - See more at: http://disinfo.com/2013/09/voyager-i-has-left-the-solar-system/#sthash.ArTSt5A0.dpuf
http://youtu.be/4B5zmDz4vR4
By today’s standards, the spacecraft’s technology is laughable: it carries an 8-track tape recorder and computers with one-240,000th the memory of a low-end iPhone. When it left Earth 36 years ago, it was designed as a four-year mission to Saturn, and everything after that was gravy.
But Voyager 1 has become — thrillingly — the Little Spacecraft That Could. On Thursday, scientists declared that it had become the first manufactured object to exit the solar system, a breathtaking achievement that NASA could only fantasize about back when Voyager was launched in 1977, the same year “Star Wars” was released.
- See more at: http://disinfo.com/2013/09/voyager-i-has-left-the-solar-system/#sthash.ArTSt5A0.dpuf
Full article here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/13/science/in-a-breathtaking-first-nasa-craft-exits-the-solar-system.html?hp&_r=0
http://youtu.be/4B5zmDz4vR4
By today’s standards, the spacecraft’s technology is laughable: it carries an 8-track tape recorder and computers with one-240,000th the memory of a low-end iPhone. When it left Earth 36 years ago, it was designed as a four-year mission to Saturn, and everything after that was gravy.
But Voyager 1 has become — thrillingly — the Little Spacecraft That Could. On Thursday, scientists declared that it had become the first manufactured object to exit the solar system, a breathtaking achievement that NASA could only fantasize about back when Voyager was launched in 1977, the same year “Star Wars” was released.
- See more at: http://disinfo.com/2013/09/voyager-i-has-left-the-solar-system/#sthash.ArTSt5A0.dpuf
Full article here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/13/science/in-a-breathtaking-first-nasa-craft-exits-the-solar-system.html?hp&_r=0