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NASA’s Voyager 1 probe has left the solar system, boldly going where no machine has gone before
Thursday, September 12, 2013 15:19
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NASA: Voyager 1 probe has left the solar system
LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA’s Voyager 1 probe has left the solar system, boldly going where no machine has gone before.
Thirty-six years after it rocketed away from Earth, the plutonium-powered spacecraft has escaped the sun’s influence and is now cruising 11 1/2 billion miles away in interstellar space, or the vast, cold emptiness between the stars, NASA said Thursday.
And just in case it encounters intelligent life out there, it is carrying a gold-plated, 1970s-era phonograph record with multicultural greetings from Earth, photos and songs, including Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode,” along with Beethoven, Bach, Mozart and Louis Armstrong.
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Image: NASA/JPL
Never before has a man-made object left the solar system as it is commonly understood.
“We made it,” said an ecstatic Ed Stone, the mission’s chief scientist, who waited decades for this moment.
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