{"id":292921,"date":"2024-04-25T18:07:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T12:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=292921"},"modified":"2024-04-25T18:07:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T12:37:32","slug":"voyager-1-and-2-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/voyager-1-and-2-spacecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source-<\/strong> This post on Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft<\/strong> has been created based on the article “Voyager 1 transmitting data again after Nasa remotely fixes 46-year-old probe” <\/b><\/a>published in \u201cThe Guardian\u201d on 23rd April 2024.<\/p>\n

Why in news?<\/h2>\n

Recently, NASA has announced that its Voyager 1 probe has resumed transmitting valuable data to ground control.<\/p>\n

About Voyager 1 spacecraft<\/h2>\n
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1.\u00a0 About the mission and its objective-<\/strong> Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA in 1977. Its primary objective is to explore the outer Solar System and beyond<\/span>.<\/span> <\/span>Voyager 1’s mission involved flybys of Jupiter and Saturn, focusing on studying their moons, rings, and magnetic fields.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Special Features-<\/strong> In August 2012, Voyager-1 entered interstellar space, becoming the first human-made object to exit the solar system.<\/p>\n

3. Significant Discoveries-\u00a0<\/strong>Significant discoveries by Voyager 1<\/span> include identifying a thin ring around Jupiter and two previously unknown Jovian moons<\/span>, Thebe and Metis.\u00a0At Saturn, it found five new moons<\/span> and a newly designated ring, the G-ring<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

About Voyager 2 Spacecraft<\/h2>\n
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1.\u00a0 About the mission and its objective-<\/strong>\u00a0Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977,<\/span> as part of the Voyager program, alongside Voyager 1. Its primary mission was to explore the outer planets of the solar system and their moons, followed by an interstellar mission.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Special achievements-<\/strong> It is the only spacecraft to conduct close-range studies of all four giant planets in the solar system.\u00a0It was the first human-made object to fly by Neptune, where it discovered five moons, four rings, and a feature known as the “Great Dark Spot<\/span>“<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

About Interstellar space<\/h2>\n

1. It is the area between the stars.<\/p>\n

2. It contains vast quantities of neutrinos, charged particles, atoms, molecules,\u00a0<\/span>dark matter and photons.<\/p>\n

UPSC Syllabus: Science and technology (Space)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source- This post on Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft has been created based on the article “Voyager 1 transmitting data again after Nasa remotely fixes 46-year-old probe” published in \u201cThe Guardian\u201d on 23rd April 2024. Why in news? Recently, NASA has announced that its Voyager 1 probe has resumed transmitting valuable data to ground control.… Continue reading Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738],"tags":[11872,11843],"class_list":["post-292921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-guardian","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}