Thirty years ago today, Voyager 1 was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on a mission to investigate Jupiter and Saturn. It accomplished its mission, sending back photos and scientific data from the two planets, but the spacecraft didn’t stop there.
Today, the spacecraft is still flying and still communicating with NASA, even though it is nearly 10 billion miles away and its transmissions take 14 hours to reach Earth. By 2015, Voyager 1 is expected to leave the solar system and scientists say it could wander the universe forever.
Attached to the side of Voyager 1 is a gold-plated phonograph record containing photos, natural sounds of Earth and 90 minutes of music from all over our world. If anyone finds Voyager during its eternal mission, the record should help them understand a little bit about life on Earth in 1977.
Click here to read an interesting article about the Voyager mission in the New York Times.
This was a cool blog today
AWESOME!!!!!!!
Impressive.
Does that mean NASA thinks there actually ARE ailens? 😮 Or are they planning on having Voyager 1 return to earth some FIFTY MILLION YEARS from now? I don’t think ANYONE will have a phonograph player in 50,000,000 years. 😀 8) 😉
ALIENS, DON’T DESTROY IT WHEN YOU FIND IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😮
wow that was a cool story (how do you guys get the open mouth face?) i’ll try :-0 :-O
what if it runs into a star? :-()
ugh i can’t find that face >:-(
Awesome Blog! Spacecrafts are very interesting to me. 8)
COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!