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ARCHIVED - NASA Voyager
@NASAVoyager
This account has been archived. Follow @NASAJPL & @NASASolarSystem to get the latest updates on Voyager 1 & 2, the longest operating spacecraft in deep space.
Interstellar space
Joined August 2010
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    Who ever thought a pair of spacecraft launched in the ’70s would end up with a Twitter account? We're signing off here, but our mission continues. (Fingers crossed for 50 years!) Thanks for being part of this remarkable story. Stay curious. Stay kind. Stay inspired. 💫 -V1&2
    Illustration of a Voyager spacecraft in space, silhouetted against a colorful, star-filled background in shades of purple and blue. The spacecraft's large dish antenna and extended instrument arms are prominently visible, evoking its ongoing journey through interstellar space.
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    My cameras were powered off more than 25 years ago, but people often want to know what it would look like if I could take a picture now. 📸 From interstellar space, our Sun would look like nothing more than a star in the night sky – and Earth wouldn't be visible at all! -V1
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    What a sight.✨ 32 years ago, I powered off my cameras forever. Minutes before, I imaged this pale blue dot; my former home. Details on the iconic 1990 photo, which was reprocessed for the 30th anniversary: go.nasa.gov/3gNmouu
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    We’ve got the ultimate long distance relationship, Earth. I took this picture of you on #ValentinesDay 1990, when I was just 4 billion miles away.
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    Sounding a little more like yourself, #Voyager1. For the first time since November, Voyager 1 is returning useable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems. Next step: Enable the spacecraft to begin returning science data again: go.nasa.gov/49PQ6bh
    After receiving data about the health and status of Voyager 1 for the first time in five months, members of the Voyager flight team celebrate in a conference room at JPL. About 15 members of the team sit around a long conference room and are shown cheering and clapping upon receiving the good news.
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    Can you hear me now? 📡 Last night, I reestablished full communications with Earth thanks to some quick thinking and a lot of collaboration. I'm operating normally and remain on my expected trajectory. So glad I can finally phone home. -V2 More: go.nasa.gov/3Y9qP7D
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    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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    Thanks to everyone who sent messages of support after yesterday's announcement that this account will be archived in coming weeks 🫶 Until then, we'd love to take you on a trip down memory lane and highlight some of our grand adventures and discoveries. Sound OK to you?
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    To extend my mission, my team has turned off another science instrument: The Cosmic Ray Subsystem helped confirm my passage into interstellar space. Now, I continue forward with three instruments still gathering data from the great beyond. -V1 🔗 go.nasa.gov/4koaCpV
    An artist's concept of the Voyager spacecraft floating against a vibrant cosmic backdrop of deep purple and blue hues. The spacecraft's large parabolic dish antenna is prominently featured, with its extended boom arms and various scientific instruments silhouetted against a star-filled sky. The scene evokes a sense of deep space exploration as the spacecraft continues its journey beyond the solar system.
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    I'm currently 14.7 billion miles / 23.8 billion km from Earth. I can pick up the faint hum of plasma waves produced by the Sun, although your star looks like a tiny speck of light from out here. 🖖 - V1
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    You've probably seen my Pale Blue Dot image – but what about this one, which I snapped years prior, just 13 days after I launched? It was the first image ever taken of the entire Earth and Moon together. -V1
    A historic image showing Earth and the Moon together for the first time, captured by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft in 1977. The bottom of the image features Earth, partially illuminated, with its blue oceans and white clouds visible against the blackness of space. Above and to the left, the Moon appears as a smaller, dimmer crescent, emphasizing the vast distance between the two celestial bodies. This photograph, taken just 13 days after Voyager 1’s launch, offers a profound perspective of our planet and its natural satellite, floating together in the cosmic void.
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    Grand Tour Encore: Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to have visited Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, has left the Sun's bubble and joined me in interstellar space! go.nasa.gov/2L5vbXM
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    35 years ago, I captured the image that would come to be known as the Pale Blue Dot. From my vantage point beyond Neptune and about 3.7 billion miles from the Sun, my team asked me to look back toward home one final time. -V1 What do you think of when you see this image?
    A dark, nearly black background with faint streaks of sunlight forming diagonal beams. In one of these beams, near the right side of the image, a minuscule, barely visible pale blue dot—Earth—stands out, appearing fragile and isolated against the vast emptiness of space. Taken on Feb. 14, 1990, by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft from 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) away, this iconic photograph underscores the profound vastness of the cosmos and Earth's tiny presence within it