There's more bad news for NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft. The twin space probes left the solar system in 2012 and 2018 respectively, and are currently over 15 billion and 20 billion miles away from Earth. And their sole energy source, a radioisotope power system, is decaying quickly, forcing the space agency's Jet Propulsion Lab to shut down even more of their scientific instruments. According to a new statement, Voyager 1's cosmic ray subsystem experiment was shut down last month, while Voyager 2's low-energy charged particle instrument will be shut down before the end of March. It's yet another […]

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