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NASA celebrates Voyager’s 40th birthday with free posters

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J-P Mauro - published on 09/13/17
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These probes have gone where no man has gone before.The Voyager probes have been one of NASA’s most successful long-term projects, sending us images from deep space that we could never have imagined. One of the most famous is the “Pale Blue Dot,” the first-ever portrait of our solar system, taken by Voyager 1.

Pale Blue Dot

NASA – Public Domain

The Voyager program was launched in 1977, which makes it 40 years-old this year. To celebrate 40 years of unbelievable images that have expanded our understanding of the universe, NASA has released several posters and infographics free to use and share.

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Atlas Obscura reports:

Voyager 1 is now floating through interstellar space beyond our solar system, farther than any man-made object in history, while Voyager 2 is currently making its way through the “heliosheath,” the outermost layer of the heliosphere.

The heliosphere is a bubble-like region of space that surrounds our solar system. It extends far beyond the rotation path of Pluto.

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NASA – PD

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