To the juniors, we were just thinking about the Voyager mission, and how NASA scientists and engineers were able to figure out how to get these two probes, launched in 1977, to the big outer planets and then out of the solar system! This article outlines what one of the probes is doing, outside the boundary of the solar system (the heliopause) and is measuring what the interstellar medium is like. Fascinating, and we still get data from the probe some 44 years after launch and 14 Billion miles away!! Check it out.
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