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It is now official: Voyager probe left the Solar System (VIDEO)

Houston, USA - The spacecraft is now about 19 billion km from the Sun

American space agency NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from our sun. New and unexpected data indicate Voyager 1 has been traveling for about one year through plasma, or ionized gas, present in the space between stars. Voyager is in a transitional region...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1155112
Rome, Italy, 09/13/2013 13:50
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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