NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena is celebrating the 48th anniversary of Voyager 1’s launch, commemorating nearly five decades of pioneering interstellar exploration led from Southern California. Launched on Sept. 5, 1977, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, Voyager 1 was originally tasked with studying Jupiter and Saturn. Today, it remains the most distant human-made object in space, traveling about 15 billion miles (25 billion kilometers) from Earth — and it’s still revealing secrets from the space between the stars, according to […] http://dlvr.it/TMwtDc
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