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Today marks the 35th anniversary of Voyager 1's launch to Jupiter and Saturn. Soon it will become the first manmade object to escape our solar system and enter a new realm of space.
Today's Random Fact: Voyager 1 is now flitting around the fringes of the solar system, which is enveloped in a giant plasma bubble. This hot and turbulent area is created by a stream of charged particles from the sun. Outside the bubble is a new frontier in the Milky Way ? the space between stars. Once it plows through, what will happen is anyone's guess.
***Bonus Fact:Voyager 1 is currently more than 11 billion miles from the sun. Twin Voyager trails behind at 9 billion miles. Since the spacecraft are so far out, it takes 17 hours for a radio signal from Voyager 1 to travel to Earth. Each only has 68 kilobytes of computer memory. To put that in perspective, the smallest iPod ? an 8-gigabyte iPod Nano ? is 100,000 times more powerful.