Edward Stone was project manager for the Voyager expeditions from 1972. Now Voyager 1 is 11 billion miles away, and approaching the boundary of interstellar space. It is
Running on dwindling plutonium, using antiquated computers and recording data on eight-track tapes that get sent to Earth on faint radio waves....
Running on dwindling plutonium, using antiquated computers and recording data on eight-track tapes that get sent to Earth on faint radio waves....
The Voyagers discovered
(1986)... Uranus, with a tilting, off-center magnetic field that was previously unimaginable. [and]
(1989...Neptune, with winds kicking up to 1,400 mph and a moon, Triton, speckled with geysers spewing nitrogen...
Today Stone says "What a journey, what a thrill," [while]... sitting at his spotless, unadorned desk. "It seemed like everywhere we looked, as we encountered those planets and their moons, we were surprised....Science has created models of deep space, but no one can say for sure what it is like - its temperatures, its composition or the speed of its interstellar wind. Most important, no one knows exactly how deep space relates to the formation of Earth.
(1986)... Uranus, with a tilting, off-center magnetic field that was previously unimaginable. [and]
(1989...Neptune, with winds kicking up to 1,400 mph and a moon, Triton, speckled with geysers spewing nitrogen...
Today Stone says "What a journey, what a thrill," [while]... sitting at his spotless, unadorned desk. "It seemed like everywhere we looked, as we encountered those planets and their moons, we were surprised....Science has created models of deep space, but no one can say for sure what it is like - its temperatures, its composition or the speed of its interstellar wind. Most important, no one knows exactly how deep space relates to the formation of Earth.
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