Monday, September 16, 2013

Voyager's Legacy

As most of you likely heard (and if you haven't, GOOD NEWS), after more than a year of disappointing headlines, which were promptly retracted; Voyager 1 FINALLY broke through the charged particles surrounding our solar system - officially reaching "interstellar space." At least; it reached what we believe to be interstellar space. Oddly enough, this region isn't well-defined. Regardless of the semantics, this is still a pretty monumental occasion. After all.. we - as in, humankind - built something that now wanders the space between stars. How cool is that?

So, in celebration of the Voyager program, we have complied some cliff notes about Voyager 1.

To read the full article, see: http://www.fromquarkstoquasars.com/voyagers-legacy/

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