{"id":85383,"date":"2019-11-09T15:42:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T10:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=11477"},"modified":"2019-11-09T15:42:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T10:12:21","slug":"voyager-2-becomes-the-second-spacecraft-to-enter-interstellar-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/voyager-2-becomes-the-second-spacecraft-to-enter-interstellar-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Voyager 2 becomes the second spacecraft to enter interstellar space"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> According\nto the researchers at the University of Iowa in the US, Voyager 2 has entered\nthe interstellar medium (ISM). This has made Voyager 2 the second human-made\nobject to journey out of the Sun\u2019s influence. The first spacecraft to do so was\nVoyager 1 in 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Voyager 2:<\/strong> Voyager\n2 was launched by NASA in 1977, to study the outer planets. Voyager 2 targeted\nJupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key achievements:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to study all\nfour of the solar system&#8217;s giant planets at close range.<\/li><li>Voyager 2 discovered a 14th moon at Jupiter.<\/li><li>Voyager 2 was the first human-made object to fly\npast Uranus.<\/li><li>At Uranus, Voyager 2 discovered 10 new moons and\ntwo new rings.<\/li><li>Voyager 2 was the first human-made object to fly\nby Neptune.<\/li><li>At Neptune, Voyager 2 discovered five moons,\nfour rings, and a &#8220;Great Dark Spot.- a huge spinning storm in the southern\natmosphere of Neptune which was about the size of the entire Earth.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional\nInformation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Interstellar medium\n(ISM):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is the matter and radiation that exists in\nthe space between the star systems in a galaxy. This matter includes gas in ionic,\natomic, and molecular form, as well as dust and cosmic rays.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: According to the researchers at the University of Iowa in the US, Voyager 2 has entered the interstellar medium (ISM). This has made Voyager 2 the second human-made object to journey out of the Sun\u2019s influence. The first spacecraft to do so was Voyager 1 in 2012. Facts: About Voyager 2: Voyager 2 was&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/voyager-2-becomes-the-second-spacecraft-to-enter-interstellar-space\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Voyager 2 becomes the second spacecraft to enter interstellar space<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2723],"class_list":["post-85383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-voyager-2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704638012},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85383","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}