Tag: Voyager

New Horizons Crosses Neptune’s Orbit on Way to Pluto

New Horizons Crosses Neptune’s Orbit on Way to Pluto

Image Credit: NASA/JPL Last week, NASA released this enhanced video of images Voyager 2 shot of Neptune’s moon Triton as it sailed past in 1989. Today, the New Horizons spacecraft crossed Neptune’s orbit on the way to its own flyby of now minor planet Pluto. The full NASA story is below. NASA New Story August […]

Posted in: NASA, Outer Planets
Where No Man(made object) Has Gone Before

Where No Man(made object) Has Gone Before

In contrast to the somewhat disappointing press briefing yesterday, especially considering the bizarre and confusing buildup, on mixed findings from the Mars Curiosity Rover, another NASA briefing proved considerably more interesting. It concerned the latest, and presumably some of the last findings to come from the much older, simpler and far more distant Voyager 1 probe as it traverses  through what science fiction might call an […]

Posted in: NASA, Space Science
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