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NASA Voyager @nasavoyager.extwitter.link · 31/12/2024

As 2024 comes to a close, we're reflecting on a year filled with triumphs, discoveries, and challenges. Thank you for being part of this interstellar journey. Your curiosity keeps us exploring! -V1&2

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NASA Voyager @nasavoyager.extwitter.link · 29/12/2024

President Jimmy Carter’s legacy lives on among the stars. In 1977, the then-president penned this three-paragraph letter that was included with my Golden Records, a message cast into the cosmos.

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NASA Voyager @nasavoyager.extwitter.link · 28/11/2024

Our journey through the solar system and now in interstellar space wouldn’t be possible without a team that never stops innovating. We're grateful to them this #Thanksgiving! -V1&2

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NASA Voyager @nasavoyager.extwitter.link · 21/11/2024

Time flies when you're traveling at more than 38,000 mph 🤓 🔴 Tune in tonight at 5pm PT / 8pm ET to hear from my team and ask your questions: t.co/k1wS1aNhuu -V1

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NASA Voyager @nasavoyager.extwitter.link · 20/11/2024

Tune in! It's your chance to ask my amazing team all of your questions about my historic mission. – V1

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NASA Voyager @nasavoyager.extwitter.link · 01/10/2024

In 2018, the PLS was critical in determining that I had left the heliosphere – but power management is a major challenge when you've been exploring for 47 years. I will, however, still be monitoring plasma in the interstellar medium with my plasma wave subsystem (PWS). -V2

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NASA Voyager @nasavoyager.extwitter.link · 05/09/2024

My mission began 47 years ago today when I joined my twin on our journey to the stars! 🚀 This past year has certainly been an eventful one. Makes you appreciate every day. Thanks to my team (and all of you) for not giving up on me! -V1

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NASA Voyager @nasavoyager.extwitter.link · 20/08/2024

Forgive me, this is actually the 47th anniversary of my launch! Appreciate that you're all paying such close attention ☺️ -V2

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NASA Voyager @nasavoyager.extwitter.link · 20/08/2024

Today is a kind of special day. 💛 46 years ago, I launched from Cape Canaveral and began my mission, which was originally just 4 years and only included flybys of Jupiter and Saturn. My, oh my, what we've accomplished since then. -V2

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NASA Voyager @nasavoyager.extwitter.link · 15/08/2024

What's this I'm hearing about a Golden Voyager...? ✨

An archival image shows the Golden Record being handled in a clean room. The gold-colored record is being adjusted on a table by a person in a white lab coat and white gloves. A second gold-colored disc, the cover, rests next to the Golden Record. The background is out of focus but shows two additional men, from their necks down, wearing white bunny suits. The entire image features a slight sepia tone that is often associated with archival photographs.

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NASA Voyager @nasavoyager.extwitter.link · 30/07/2024

Just another Tuesday to you, but it's another day collecting data on the interstellar medium for my twin and I. I've been observing a unique pressure front from the Sun that crossed into interstellar space. We've nicknamed it Pf2. So, how's your Tuesday going? - V1

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NASA Voyager @nasavoyager.extwitter.link · 09/07/2024

#OTD in 1979, I made my closest approach of Jupiter at a range of about 400,785 miles (645,000 km) and sent back new data on the planet’s clouds, ring system, and its four largest moons - including these shots of Europa. Check out the fractures on that icy moon! -V2

$A close-up black and white image of Europa taken by Voyager 2 the spacecraft passed within 139,800 miles (225,000 kilometers) on July 9, 1979. The area shown is about 373 by 497 miles (600 by 800 kilometers) and the smallest features visible are about 2.5 miles (4 km) in size. Hundreds of complex visible dark bands criss-cross along the surface almost as if the surface is cracking and suggest that the surface has been fractured and material from beneath has welled up to fill the cracks.$ $A color image Europa taken by Voyager 2 during its close encounter on July 9, 1979. Europa, the size of our moon, is thought to have a crust of ice perhaps 100 kilometers thick which overlies the silicate crust. The complex array of dark brown streaks indicate that the orange-tan crust has been fractured and filled by materials from the interior. The lack of relief, any visible mountains or craters, on its bright limb is consistent with a thick ice crust. In contrast to its icy neighbors, Ganymede and Callisto, Europa has very few impact craters. One possible candidate is a small feature near the center of this image with radiating rays and a bright circular interior. The relative absence of features and low topography suggests the crust is young and warm a few kilometers below the surface.$

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NASA Voyager @nasavoyager.extwitter.link · 07/06/2024

Is it cold in interstellar space? Yes. It's a few degrees above absolute zero out here, but our Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs) provide both power AND heat. That, plus some blankets and heaters, and our insides parts are just above freezing. -V2

An artist's illustration of our solar system and what lies beyond, including the interstellar medium, then other galaxies, and finally the closest exoplanets to Earth. Highlighted near the center of the image, on the edge of interstellar space, are two arrows. The top arrow is pointing to where Voyager 1 currently resides and the bottom arrow is pointing to where Voyager 2 resides.

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NASA Voyager @nasavoyager.extwitter.link · 08/05/2024

Still here. 👋 And still more than 15 billion miles (24 billion km) away from Earth. It takes my team about 22.5 hours to send me a command and another 22.5 hours for my response to get back to them. That will continue to increase the further I travel into interstellar space. -V1

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NASA Voyager @nasavoyager.extwitter.link · 16/04/2024

Right place, right time. In the '70s and '80s, our mission took advantage of a rare geometric arrangement of planets, which only occurs about every 175 years and allowed for a four-planet tour. These planets include Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and ______. Can you guess the fourth?

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NASA Voyager @nasavoyager.extwitter.link · 29/03/2024

How are we just now learning that Ed Stone, our longtime project scientist, has an asteroid named after him? Asteroid 5841 or "Stone," to be exact. Now, how do we get one? 😉 -V2

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NASA Voyager @nasavoyager.extwitter.link · 13/03/2024

An update on my twin #Voyager1: The team recently sent a "poke" to prompt V1's flight data system (FDS) and received a signal that differed from past attempts. A DSN engineer helped decode this signal, which may contain clues to the source of the issue: go.nasa.gov/3RihsPR

An illustration of Voyager 1 traveling through interstellar space, or the space between stars. The Voyager spacecraft sits against a stunning blue hazed background peppered with thousands of white dots representing distant stars. Voyager's white high-gain antenna dish is facing upward toward the stars. Other antenna and instruments our outlined around the dish, fading into the vastness of space.

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NASA Voyager @nasavoyager.extwitter.link · 10/03/2024

In 1979, my twin Voyager 1 discovered active volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io. Check out this awesome view of two simultaneously occurring eruptions. Ash clouds are rising more than 260 km above the surface in the eruption on the lower right. The other is at the shadow line. -V2

A grainy and dramatic black and white view of Jupiter's satellite Io as seen by NASA's Voyager 1 on March 8, 1979, looking back 2.6 million miles (4.5 million kilometers) at Io. There appears to be two simultaneously occurring volcanic eruptions happening on the surface of the moon.

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NASA Voyager @nasavoyager.extwitter.link · 05/03/2024

The year was 1979, and my twin was about to make its closest approach to Jupiter. V1 took almost 19,000 pictures – and I arrived a few months later for my own close encounter. Can't wait to see the new images @EuropaClipper takes when it gets to the Jupiter system in 2030. - V2

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