Voyager 1 and 2: Now, We Know A Little Better The Fate Of The Probes!
1,403🌎 Get Our Merch designed with ❤ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNYaxPiba3oxmeL_3jKxnYA/store
💫Get 10% off Under Lucky Stars and enjoy our star maps completely custom-made 💫 https://www.underluckystars.com/INSANECURIOSITY
Incredible Voyager 1 and 2! Years and decades pass by, but not a month goes by that the two most popular interplanetary probes in the world don't make people talk about them...
Astronomers seem literally unable to let them go, to resign themselves to losing them... and so, even when the signals and the incoming data become more and more scarce, they continue to chase them with their calculations, scrutinizing from afar the fate they are going to meet.
As in this case, where they even talk about the state of preservation of that message in a bottle that the two probes carry within themselves, like a hope.
- -
Subscribe for more videos ►https://www.youtube.com/c/InsaneCuriosity?sub_confirmation=1?
Business Enquiries ► Lorenzovareseaziendale@gmail.com
We have Another Channel ► "Down The Rabbit Hole" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqdTuLTekIsdgaIKjwj4D-A
- -
Predicting future events can be a very slippery topic to treat, but sometimes physics and maths can help. And while the future of each of us remains completely unpredictable, that of two interplanetary probes seemingly destined to get lost in space can instead be anticipated with surprisingly plausible details.
We can, for example, not only reconstruct the trajectory of two probes that are fleeing from the Sun, accurately calculating their future encounters with other stars, but also describe their gradual deterioration, including what precious things they carry inside, simply by hypothesizing which region of our galaxy they will pass through. The amount of interstellar dust they will encounter will in fact make a difference, as will their dolphin-like sway above and below the equatorial plane of the galaxy.
And that's what he tried to do Nick Oberg, Ph.D. student at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute in the Netherlands, who wanted to try to improve the reliability and accuracy of the next stellar encounters of the Voyager probes in his work recently presented at the 237th meeting of the American Astronomical Society. But not only ... the Dutch astronomer also wanted to try to understand how long the famous gold discs that the two spacecraft carry on board would be preserved so that they could be read by some extraterrestrial civilization that had collected them.
You know what we are talking about, right?
NASA launched Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 in 1977 to trek across the Solar system. On each was a 30 centimeters large gold-plated copper disk. The brainchild of famed astronomer Carl Sagan, the Golden Records were engraved with music and photographs meant to represent Earth and its humans to any intelligent beings the spacecraft meet on their long journeys.
oth spacecraft visited Jupiter and Saturn, then the twins parted ways: Voyager 1 studied Saturn's moon Titan while Voyager 2 swung past Uranus and Neptune.
In 2012, Voyager 1 passed through the heliopause that marks the edge of the sun's solar wind and entered interstellar space; in 2018, Voyager 2 did so as well. Now, the two spacecraft are chugging through the vast outer reaches of the Solar system. They continue to send signals back to Earth, updating humans about their adventures far beyond the planets, although those bulletins may cease in a few years, as the spacecraft are both running low on power.
- -
"If You happen to see any content that is yours, and we didn't give credit in the right manner please let us know at Lorenzovareseaziendale@gmail.com and we will correct it immediately"
"Some of our visual content is under an Attribution-ShareAlike license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/) in its different versions such as 1.0, 2.0, 3,0, and 4.0 – permitting commercial sharing with attribution given in each picture accordingly in the video."
Credits: Ron Miller
Credits: Mark A. Garlick / MarkGarlick.com
Credits: Nasa/Shutterstock/Storyblocks/Elon Musk/SpaceX/ESA/ESO
Credits: Flickr
#InsaneCuriosity #Voyager1and2 #Voyager2