What did Voyager 2 see during its journey out of the solar system?

Voyager 2 discovered 10 new moons, two new rings, and a strangely tilted magnetic field stronger than that of Saturn. A gravity assist at Uranus propelled the spacecraft toward its next destination, Neptune.

Can Voyager still take pictures?

The spacecrafts’ transmitters will be the last to go. They will die on their own, in the late 2020s or perhaps in the 2030s. There will be no more pictures; engineers turned off the spacecraft’s cameras, to save memory, in 1990, after Voyager 1 snapped the famous image of Earth as a “pale blue dot” in the darkness.

Does space go in all directions?

The universe, it turns out, looks the same in every direction. But on a much size scale encompassing the entire universe, new research shows the cosmic landscape doesn’t have any preferred direction — there’s no axis of spin like the Earth, no massive asymmetries that would orient a cosmic traveler.

What happened to the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft?

Voyager I and II Flight Paths Animated tour of the flight of the voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft Launched toward the end of the seventies, the voyager spacecraft visited Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and continued on to where they are now. Both spacecraft are alive and have now left the solar system.

Will the Voyagers ever turn their cameras back on?

Even if mission managers recreated the computers on the ground, reloaded the software onto the spacecraft and were able to turn the cameras back on, it is not clear that they would work. In addition, it is very dark where the Voyagers are now.

Are the Voyagers further away from Earth than they appear?

However, they are in fact further than they appear. This is because this simulation only shows a plan view but both spacecraft were sent out of the plane of the ecliptic in their final planetary encounters. This means Vogager 1 is some distance above the plane (e.g. closer to the viewer) and voyager 2 is some distance below the plane.

Is Voyager 1 the farthest away from the Sun?

Voyager 1 is the furthest away but is still within the region dominated by the Sun and its solar wind and is still considered to be within the solar system. Both spacecraft have, however, passed the farthest known planets within our solar system – when Voyager 2 passed Neptune in 1989.