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Voyager APOD

Post by Mazmanian.net » Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:11 pm

Perhaps slightly off-topic, but does anyone know if the Voyagers are still transmitting images of any kind at all?

Not that there's much to photograph in their current travels, but I believe there were imagining systems beyond the normal, visible light cameras we humans are so fond of.

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Re: Voyager APOD

Post by Case » Sat Dec 15, 2007 12:08 pm

When looking at the Voyager website, it seems the spacecrafts are still collecting data, counting particles and such, the kind one can plot in a graph, not taking pictures. The scan platforms (which have the cameras) have been powered down, but the instruments for magnetic field, low energy charged particles, cosmic rays and plasma still operate.

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