Update on Voyager one as it has Pluto in its rear-view mirror

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Update on Voyager one as it has Pluto in its rear-view mirror

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famousone · 7 years ago · FIRST

Space is awesome

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betterthanyou · 7 years ago

Voyager 1 put Pluto in it’s rearview mirror many years ago. It has actually gone into interstellar space, no longer within the Sun’s gravitational field.

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silvermyth · 7 years ago

Well sometimes NASA builds stuff to self destruct. Having it last too long isn’t good.

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the_average_gatsby · 7 years ago

Plus being in a zero g vacuum it's not exposed to a lot of the environmental factors that normally cause machines to degrade like rust and corrosion

123repeatafterme · 7 years ago

Its still -270°C...try getting your car to start at those temperatures

anthracite · 7 years ago

The Voyagers were designed for this; your car was not. The Voyager 1 cost 250 million dollars back then; your car did not.

guest · 6 years ago

All that radiation, up shielded by our atmosphere...

Also, I'll bet NASA didn't build it, but specified it for contractors and subcontractors to build (Program Management).

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smitty · 7 years ago

https://youtu.be/jaJ-xDLB_C8

Consiter again, that Pale Blue Dot.
That's here, that's home...

...that's us.

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kittykatsuma03 · 6 years ago

Sounds like something I would do

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Update on Voyager one as it has Pluto in its rear-view mirror

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