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Thirty Years After Launch Probe Shows Universe Egg Shaped

Houston, TX-When it was launched August 20th, 1977 the Voyager II probe was expected to report back for several years about the different planets and space features it encountered.

But for thirty years?

The Voyager II space probe has been the little engine that could, faithfully beaming back information on a weekly basis for the last 30 years, and it is approaching what is known as termination shock.

The sun spews out particles known as the solar wind and it pushes against the interstellar plasma in our solar system, where the two meet is known as termination shock.

Well the little Voyager II has reached that barrier and pushed through it and reported back a wealth of information in the process.

Voyager I crossed the same barrier a few years earlier, but it had a telemetery failure that caused information flowing to earth to suddenly and abruptly cease.

Voyager II has been more reliable and faithfully sending back information, and measurements. The different information is nearly overflowing, and as the little spacecraft that could continues to move through space, it will continue to send back even more information over the next several years.