NASA announced on Wednesday that later this month to save energy, it will switch off another research device for the Voyager 2 aircraft. This comes after a similar device was shut down on Voyager 1 next week.
The Voyager 2 device is designed to study cosmic rays, whereas the Voyager 1 instrument was designed to analyze charged particles and celestial rays.
The walk is a part of an effort to make the 47-year-old spacecraft’s lifespan longer than our renewable system’s.
Suzanne Dodd, the Voyager project manager at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, confirmed the choice in a statement, stating that energy-saving measures are required to continue receiving information for as long as possible.
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were sent on a quest to explore the extraterrestrial worlds in 1977. They have made numerous groundbreaking discoveries over the years, including Voyager 2’s ancient flybys of Uranus and Neptune, as well as Jupiter’s tiny ring system, Saturn’s planets.
Each Voyager also has three effective methods that are collecting data on the planet’s safe bubbles and the unknowns of deep space, perhaps with some of its instruments shut down. Voyager 2 is located more than 13 billion miles ( 20.92 billion km ) away from Earth, while Voyager 1 is now 24.14 billion kilometers ( 24.14 billion km ) away.
The blood research instrument used by Voyager 2 last September was shut down by NASA because it measures the charge flow in space.
