finally!
NASA
reaches
to
12 billion
miles away,
Voyager 2
BY - rivanshi rakhrai
NASA has succeeded in re-
establishing full contact with
Voyager 2 by using its
highest-power transmitter
to send an "interstellar shout"
Launched in 1977 to explore
the outer planets
Currently it is more than
12.3 billion miles (19.9 billion
k
ilometers
) from our planet
Voyager 2 left the protective
magnetic bubble provided by
the Sun, called the
heliosphere, in December
2018
It is currently traveling
through the space between
the stars
Before leaving our solar
system, it explored Jupiter
a
nd
Saturn, and became the
first spacecraft to visit
Uranus and Neptune
Voyager 2's twin Voyager 1 was
mankind's first spacecraft to
enter the interstellar medium,
in 2012
Both carry "Golden Records" --
12-inch, gold-plated copper
disks intended to convey the
story of our world to
extraterrestrials
After 2025, the Voyagers will
continue to beam back