NASA Scientists Answer Your Burning Questions About Voyager 1
Voyager 1 One of the two identical Voyager probes, as photographed by NASA. NASA Voyager 1 has officially entered interstellar space. How long will the spacecraft have power? When might it reach another star? The NASA team answered these questions and more on Reddit. NASA announced yesterday that its Voyager 1 spacecraft, which blasted off in 1977 and is the farthest human-made object from Earth, had officially left the heliosphere and entered interstellar space. Cool! But the news left us with plenty of questions: What kind of data can we get from Voyager 1? How does it still have power? When will it find the aliens? Helpfully, the scientists and engineers behind the mission answered many of these questions on Reddit yesterday. Here are our favorite moments from their AMA. How can you still receive information from Voyager after it's gone so much further than expected?-from Reddit user cyberine Mostly because technology on the ground...