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Spacecraft Will Reach Pluto in July, Revealing Last Face in Solar System
“The Pluto we imagined will just go away like smoke ... By the late 1980s, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft had swept through the realm of the giant planets and revealed the real mass of ...
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The farthest spacecraft from Earth are shutting off instruments in interstellar space
Meanwhile, Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle instrument ... fields and particles that extends well beyond the orbit of Pluto. Instruments necessary for collecting data during the planetary ...
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NASA's twin Voyager probes are shutting down some instruments to conserve power
Voyager 2 was launched before Voyager 1 by 16 days ... magnetic fields and particles that extends well beyond the orbit of Pluto.Instruments necessary for collecting data during the planetary ...
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NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend life of the two interstellar spacecraft 'Every day could be our last.'
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, can continue exploring space beyond the limits of the solar system. To save energy for further interstellar exploration, mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...
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NASA works to extend Voyager spacecraft mission again: 'Every day could be our last'
Voyager 1 and 2 launched in 1977 on a grand tour of the solar system, making flybys of all our planets – just not Pluto, which was still classified as a planet at the time. After successfully ...