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Voyager 1 Leaves The Solar System (PICTURES) After 36 years - and a couple of recent false alarms - Nasa now says that the craft has become the first manmade object to enter inter-stellar space. Based on data about the hot gas on the edge of our Solar System, scientists can now be sure that the craft left our sun's heliosphere in August 2012. The Voyager 1 probe was initially launched just to explore the planets of our solar system. But it continued to function beyond its engineers' expectations, and is still transmitting data even now it has left area of our sun's influence. "Now that we have new, key data, we believe this is mankind's historic leap into interstellar space," said Ed Stone, Voyager project scientist based at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. "The Voyager team needed time to analyze those observations and make sense of them. But we can now answer the question we've all been asking -- 'Are we there yet?' Yes, we are." The remarkably durable craft has now travelled 11 billion miles, trailed at 9 billion miles by its successor, Voyager 2. Voyager 1 will now travel alone in space, on a course for the star AC +793888 - which it will never reach.
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Voyager 1 probio granicu: Prva letjelica koja je napustila Sunčev sustav Screenshot: YouTube DALEKE 1977. godine dvije su svemirske letjelice, Voyager 1 i 2, poletjele u svemir. Jedna od njih, Voyager 1, ući će u povijest kao prva letjelica koja je napustila Sunčev sustav, piše CNN. Znanstvenici sada imaju čvrste dokaze da je NASA-ina letjelica Voyager 1 prešla važnu granicu i napustila heliosferu, magnetski prostor koji dijeli Sunčani sustav od ostatka galaksije, te tako postala prva takva letjelica koju je napravila ljudska ruka, a ušla je u međuzvjezdani prostor. "Napustivši heliosferu te započevši plovidbu svemirskim morem među zvijezdama, Voyager se pridružuje ostalim povijesnim istraživačkim putovanjima kao što je ono na Mjesec", rekao je Ed Stone, glavni znanstvenik Voyagerove misije. Voyager 1 trenutno je od Zemlje udaljen 18,8 milijardi kilometara, dok njegov blizanac, Voyager 2, za njim zaostaje; on je nešto bliže, na 15,3 milijarde kilometara.