Voyager 2 - NASA Science
Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune. The probe is now in interstellar space, the region outside the heliopause, or the bubble of energetic particles and magnetic fields from the Sun.
Where are Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 Now? - Science@NASA
This near real-time 3D data visualization uses actual spacecraft and planet positions to show the location of both Voyager 1 and 2 and many other spacecraft exploring our galactic neighborhood. Voyager 1's position in October 2024.
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Nov 5, 2018 · NASA's Voyager mission took advantage of a once-every-175-year alignment of the outer planets for a grand tour of the solar system. The twin spacecraft revealed details about Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune – using each planet's gravity to …
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Voyager 2: Off to save power (Sept. 26, 2024) The PLS experiment measures the low energy ions and electrons that comprise the bulk of the plasma. Three plasma detectors point in the direction of the Earth to observed solar wind flow and a fourth looks at a right angle to this direction to observed planetary magnetospheres and the heliosphere.
Voyager - NASA Science
What’s on the Golden Record. Voyager 1 and its twin Voyager 2 are the only spacecraft ever to operate outside the heliosphere, the protective bubble of particles and magnetic fields generated by the Sun. Voyager 1 reached the interstellar boundary in 2012, while Voyager 2 (traveling slower and in a different direction than its twin) reached ...
Mining Old Data From NASA’s Voyager 2 Solves Several Uranus …
4 days ago · When NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists’ first — and, so far, only — close glimpse of this strange, sideways-rotating outer planet. Alongside the discovery of new moons and rings, baffling new mysteries confronted scientists. The energized particles around the planet defied their understanding of ...
Still Kickin’ Since the ’70s: NASA’s Voyager Mission Keeps Exploring
Nov 4, 2024 · A Little Mission Background. Voyager is a NASA mission made up of two different spacecraft, Voyager 1 and 2, which launched to space on Sept. 5, 1977, and Aug. 20, 1977, respectively. In the decades following launch, the pair took a grand tour of our solar system, studying Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune — one of NASA’s earliest ...
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The twin spacecraft Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched by NASA in separate months in the summer of 1977 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. As originally designed, the Voyagers were to conduct closeup studies of Jupiter and Saturn, Saturn's rings, and …
NASA’s 38-Year-Old Voyager 2 Data Finally Solves ... - SciTechDaily
1 day ago · Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Now, new research analyzing data from that 38-year-old flyby has shed light on this mystery, revealing it was likely due to a cosmic coincidence. Just days before Voyager 2’s flyby, an unusual space weather event compressed Uranus’s magnetosphere, dramatically altering the planet’s magnetic field and creating the ...
Mission Overview - NASA Science
Voyager 2 entered interstellar space on Nov. 5, 2018 and scientists hope to learn more about this region. Both spacecraft are still sending scientific information about their surroundings through the Deep Space Network, or DSN. The primary mission was the exploration of Jupiter and Saturn.