Nasa's Voyager 2 may be ready to set another record by reaching Interstellar space soon !
Nasa's Voyager 2 may be ready to set another record by reaching Interstellar space soon ! Currently the Voyager 2 probe is in the outermost layer of the Heliosheath " Heliopause ". And is nearing an exit from our Solar System , as soon it does so it will become the second man made object to leave the solar system and reach interstellar space. Image souce - Nasa/Jpl After successfull voyages to desired destinations of Saturn , Jupiter , Neptune and all their artificial satellites, The Voyagers (1&2) were sent on to two different paths to exit the Solar System into Interstellar space. Voyager 1 was the first to cross the Solar System's outer zone what we call Heliosheath in the year 2012 and registered itself in Human records being the first man made object to reach interstellar space. Currently Voyager 1 is the farthest man made object in space, and is about 11.7 billion miles (18.8 billion kms) away from Earth, travelling at speeds of 61,000 km/hr...