V'ger 1 Still Ticking, V'ger II Switched Off

The Voyager probes carried UV spectrometers that could identify Lyman alpha emissions and, as luck would have it, researchers starting using them to scan their surroundings all the way back in the early '90s. (They were actually looking for something else: a spot where the solar system's hydrogen piles up against pressure from the interstellar medium.) These scans continued sporadically for most of the rest of the decade.

Researchers have now gone back and reanalyzed this data, incorporating information on the Voyager's position and the orientation of their observations. The resulting image clearly shows the plane of our galaxy as a bright area, as you'd expect, and there are obvious regional variations in the signal.

While going to college I was working in an electronic component burn-in house where we burned in many of the componenst used in that and several other space exploration projects.

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Cool. Didn't know one of the Voyagers was still ticking.

- Peter.

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Yeah, no one remembers these things and its only been 34 years. Just wait another 200 years, it will take the nerdiest/smartest amongst us 2 and half boring hours to remember that its just a damn satellite.

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damn i thought this thread was about the amc pacer!!

Yeah, I remember. I was surveying in the Pigeon River area of Michigan. Running parallel elevation traverses across the river. It was lovely work in a beautiful part of the world. Makes the satellite easy to remember.

Time has an article on these satellites this week.

Here's a video of their continuing travels to inter-stellar space....12 billion miles away..They are both still active.

The Voyager Probes Boldly Go Where None Have Gone Before - Video - TIME.com

I would have remembered that.

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