“if found, please return to SOL4”

The internet has a new friend on Mars.

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Meanwhile, at the edge of the Heliosphere

 

The twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft continue exploring where nothing from Earth has flown before. In the 34th year after their 1977 launches, they each are much farther away from Earth and the Sun than Pluto. Voyager 1 and 2 are now in the “Heliosheath” – the outermost layer of the heliosphere where the solar wind is slowed by the pressure of interstellar gas. Both spacecraft are still sending scientific information about their surroundings through the Deep Space Network (DSN).

They carry a map of the solar system, by Frank Drake:

So, if I ever get lost out there, our alien friends will know where to drop me back.

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