Now the farthest human-made objects from Earth, the Voyager probes continue to send back valuable information to scientists on earth. A new Interstellar Probe could go faster and further into space.
, a portrait of the solar system taken by Voyager 1 in 1990, at about 6 billion miles away from Earth.
Ralph McNutt, who heads space science at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, has worked on the Voyager missions for his entire career. He witnessed the Voyager 1 launch in September 1977, and he’s now a leader of the IP project. The key transmitter on the new probe and its instruments, including magnetometers and spectrometers, would be many times more powerful than their 1977 equivalents. And the IP could also visit some of the mysteriousin the outer reaches of the solar system, which are thought to be the origins of some comets, McNutt said.
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