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  1. 06-16-2024, 02:44 PM #1
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    NASA's Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, is doing science again after problem.

    DALLAS (AP) — NASA's Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, is sending science data again.

    Voyager 1's four instruments are back in business after a computer problem in November, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said this week. The team first received meaningful information again from Voyager 1 in April, and recently commanded it to start studying its environment again.

    Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is drifting through interstellar space, or the space between star systems. Before reaching this region, the spacecraft discovered a thin ring around Jupiter and several of Saturn’s moons. Its instruments are designed to collect information about plasma waves, magnetic fields and particles.

    Voyager 1 is over 15 billion miles (24.14 kilometers) from Earth. Its twin Voyager 2 — also in interstellar space — is more than 12 billion miles (19.31 kilometers) miles away.
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    At the current location a command takes 23.5 hrs to get there and another day for a response. It left our solar system about 12 billion miles back
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    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
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    Mind-boggling the size of our universe.
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