After 49 years of travel and over 21 billion kilometers covered, the Voyager 2 probe continues to revolutionize what we thought we knew about the solar system. In this video, we delve into a true and verifiable story: the crossing of the heliopause in November 2018, the interstellar plasma hotter than expected, the magnetic field that doesn't behave as predicted by models, the loss of contact in July 2023 saved by an "interstellar scream," and above all, the discovery published in 2024 in Nature Astronomy: the 1986 flyby of Uranus occurred during an extreme solar event that happens only about 4% of the time. For 38 years, we described an entire planet from a single stormy day.
On the agenda:
Why Voyager 2 was launched before Voyager 1
The planetary alignment that only occurs once every 176 years
Flybys of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
Triton's geysers and Neptune's 2,100 km/h winds
Crossing the heliopause on November 5, 2018, at 119.7 astronomical units
The mystery of the heliosphere's shape: comet, sphere, or crescent?
The reinterpretation of Uranus data in 2024 and what it changes for the search for hidden oceans on Titania and Oberon
SOURCES AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
Voyager Mission (NASA):
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/
Official Voyager website (NASA/JPL):
https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/
Jet Propulsion Laboratory News :
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/
Nature Astronomy (review of the 2024 study of Uranus's magnetosphere during the Voyager 2 flyby):
https://www.nature.com/natastron/
IBEX Mission (mapping the heliosphere boundary):
https://www.nasa.gov/mission/ibex/
IMAP Mission (successor to IBEX):
https://imap.princeton.edu/
Voyager's Golden Record (NASA):
https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/
Deep Space Network in real time (see the antennas communicating with Voyager 2):
https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/dsn-now/dsn.html
All the information in this video comes from scientific publications and official press releases, transformed into a narrative Original. If you spot an error, please report it in the comments: here, we correct the models when the data speaks for itself.
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#Voyager2 #NASA #Space
After 49 years of travel and over 21 billion kilometers covered, the Voyager 2 probe continues to revolutionize what we thought we knew about the solar system. In this video, we delve into a true and verifiable story: the crossing of the heliopause in November 2018, the interstellar plasma hotter than expected, the magnetic field that doesn't behave as predicted by models, the loss of contact in July 2023 saved by an "interstellar scream," and above all, the discovery published in 2024 in Nature Astronomy: the 1986 flyby of Uranus occurred during an extreme solar event that happens only about 4% of the time. For 38 years, we described an entire planet from a single stormy day.
On the agenda:
Why Voyager 2 was launched before Voyager 1
The planetary alignment that only occurs once every 176 years
Flybys of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
Triton's geysers and Neptune's 2,100 km/h winds
Crossing the heliopause on November 5, 2018, at 119.7 astronomical units
The mystery of the heliosphere's shape: comet, sphere, or crescent?
The reinterpretation of Uranus data in 2024 and what it changes for the search for hidden oceans on Titania and Oberon
SOURCES AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
Voyager Mission (NASA):
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/
Official Voyager website (NASA/JPL):
https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/
Jet Propulsion Laboratory News :
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/
Nature Astronomy (review of the 2024 study of Uranus's magnetosphere during the Voyager 2 flyby):
https://www.nature.com/natastron/
IBEX Mission (mapping the heliosphere boundary):
https://www.nasa.gov/mission/ibex/
IMAP Mission (successor to IBEX):
https://imap.princeton.edu/
Voyager's Golden Record (NASA):
https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/
Deep Space Network in real time (see the antennas communicating with Voyager 2):
https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/dsn-now/dsn.html
All the information in this video comes from scientific publications and official press releases, transformed into a narrative Original. If you spot an error, please report it in the comments: here, we correct the models when the data speaks for itself.
Subscribe to explore the greatest mysteries of space, told with rigor and passion.
#Voyager2 #NASA #Space