Voyager 2 Today

Voyager 2 is still in space and relaying data back to NASA. In December of 2018, Voyager 2 entered interstellar space (considered by NASA to be outside of our solar system). In July of 2019, only five of the probe’s instruments were still working, and eventually, none of them will be functional. The engineers who built Voyager 2 anticipated this and equipped it with a golden record of music and greetings in over 60 different languages for any extraterrestrial beings who might find the probe after it fully stops functioning.

File:The Sounds of Earth - GPN-2000-001976.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
Photo of “The Sounds of Earth” record taken by NASA https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Sounds_of_Earth_-_GPN-2000-001976.jpg

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *