Voyager 2 working for 12,000 Days!! Let's celebrate!

[CranesNotSkyHooks]

For more info: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/voyager20100628.html

I wish I had posted this on the 28th because that was the official 12k mark. I'll make sure to post for Voyager 1's 12k mark on the 13th of July!

 

[Duce]

That's great to hear...good to know it's lasting....
p.s - that things been up longer then I've been living.

 

[ExplorerAtHeart]

The Voyagers are great! Soon they will begin their silent journey through the vast open.

 

[Amerist]

It's still working? Now that is something to celebrate! ^^

 

[wolfrayet]

Amazing, really is.

I just finished reading a great book "13 Things That Don't Make Sense" by Michael Brooks, one of the chapters called "The Pioneer Anomaly" details a little about the two probes Pioneer 10 & 11 (which by the way are way past the outer reaches of our Solar System now & of which the last signal we had was back in 2003 from Pioneer 10), but namely Pioneer 10 - who's current trajectory is on course to hit the Star Alderbaran in around 2 million years has been effected by a very tiny gravitational pull on the craft which pulls the probe slighlty of course - something like 8,000 miles every year. The gravitational pull is around 10 billion times that of the Earths pull on your feet, but the point is predictions that the pulls are coming from planets in the Solar system or even the sun just don't add up, or at least shouldn't pull in the manner that they are.

Anyway, highly recommended read - especially if your like me & find reading stuff like this before going to bed sends you off pronto :idea:

 

[CranesNotSkyHooks]

Amazing, really is.

I just finished reading a great book "13 Things That Don't Make Sense" by Michael Brooks, one of the chapters called "The Pioneer Anomaly" details a little about the two probes Pioneer 10 & 11 (which by the way are way past the outer reaches of our Solar System now & of which the last signal we had was back in 2003 from Pioneer 10), but namely Pioneer 10 - who's current trajectory is on course to hit the Star Alderbaran in around 2 million years has been effected by a very tiny gravitational pull on the craft which pulls the probe slighlty of course - something like 8,000 miles every year. The gravitational pull is around 10 billion times that of the Earths pull on your feet, but the point is predictions that the pulls are coming from planets in the Solar system or even the sun just don't add up, or at least shouldn't pull in the manner that they are.

Anyway, highly recommended read - especially if your like me & find reading stuff like this before going to bed sends you off pronto :idea:

:shock: :idea:

Thanks for the recommendation and for the info about the Pioneers!

 

[MRaverz]

That's great to hear...good to know it's lasting....
p.s - that things been up longer then I've been living.

It was about 15 years old when I was born. :shock:

 

[V1keo]

I propose 1 drink for each day it's been up. This is going to take a little while.

 

[Shaedys]

I propose 1 drink for each day it's been up. This is going to take a little while.

You could have the entire world help you with that, or it would take a lifetime.

 

[AndromedasWake]

Voyager 2 is my favourite mission of all time. When I was a boy my dad bought me a book with all the amazing images of the planets that came from the Voyager and Pioneer programmes. Back then the data was still new, V2 passed Neptune in 1989 when I was but 3 years of age

Those images really inspired me to see the planets for myself, and every time I look at Neptune, a tiny blue dot 3 billion miles away, I think of V2 whizzing past seeing it in such extraordinary detail for the first time. True exploration and discovery.

Here's to the Voyagers.

 

[PatrickTheScienceGuy]

i do believe this calls for drinks all round.

 

[UrbanMasque]

Anyone know where it is currently located? How far out is it?

 

[bemanos]

Anyone know where it is currently located? How far out is it?

As of May 2010, Voyager 2 is 92 AU from the Sun, at −54.59,° declination and 19.733 h right ascension, placing it in the constellation Telescopium as observed from Earth.
its further than the orbit of pluto for sure

google is your friend :mrgreen:

 

[JRChadwick]

Voyager 2 might have been launched first, but Voyager 1 one is currently the farthest man-made object from Earth. It is breaching the heliopause and will soon be able to sample the interstellar media.

 

[Lallapalalable]

When I was a boy my dad bought me a book with all the amazing images of the planets that came from the Voyager and Pioneer programmes.

I had a similar book, and I believe its what got me interested in astronomy and science as a whole.

 

[QuanSai]

NO! This gives the machine more of a chance to become V'ger!

 

[Anachronous Rex]

NO! This gives the machine more of a chance to become V'ger!

Which will in tern lead to hot man on bald-android action. Why are you complaining?

 

[QuanSai]

NO! This gives the machine more of a chance to become V'ger!

Which will in tern lead to hot man on bald-android action. Why are you complaining?

Valid point. However, lack of such an event will not hurt mankind as much as a machine such as V'ger would.