BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Voyager 1 pushes for deep space

(click pic for larger, gratuitous assimilation, Earthlings...)

"The Voyager 1 probe is getting very close to the edge of the Solar System.

Launched in 1977, the craft is now some 14 billion km (8.7 billion miles) from the Sun and on the cusp of deep space.

American space agency (Nasa) scientists told a conference in New Orleans on Tuesday that Voyager was moving through a region known as the heliosheath." (more at link)

Click here to see a graphic showing Voyager's believed position

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Go... go... GO VOYAGER!

Here is another larger image of where Voyager is in relation to our solar system.

More about Voyagers 1 and 2 here at the JPL NASA site.
NSSDC: Voyager Project Information
Voyager 1 Gallery of Saturn's Ring System (lots of kick-ass images)
STARTREK.COM : Star Trek: Voyager
(Yeah, I know... give me a break, I had to include the last link...)
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