NASA is working on an interstellar mission to reach 150,000 million kilometers from Earth

The project is called “Interstellar Probe” and aims to surpass the record of the Voyager probes, reaching a distance 1000 times that between the Sun and the Earth.

Changing your point of view is important. Seeing things from a different angle can sometimes allow us to see them in a totally different way. And in interstellar space, as you know, there are such an infinite number of angles and places from which objects can be observed. But like all perspectives, some are better than others. They allow us to find more information, but they are also .

they have certainly done a great job allowing humanity to access some difficult prospects by having pushed themselves further than anyone elsein space. Now, however, a team of more than 500 scientists and volunteers is urging NASA to go even further. The objective, in fact, is to send a satellite to a distance 1000 times greater than that between the Sun and the Earthalmost 10 times that traveled by the Voyagers in over 35 years.

What does the interstellar project consist of?

The project, currently known as “Interstellar Probe”is directed by the doctor Elena Provornikova of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physical Lab. The team, made up of around 500 people, will help her define the objectives and roadmap of a mission that promises to be very ambitious. Many of the questions the probe will have to answer are related to the area that surrounds the solar system and protects it from solar winds. Voyager 2 has crossed its bordersa year and a half ago, but its instruments were not designed to study its phenomena. There are still a lot of unanswered questions and the new mission aims to reveal their secrets. One of these, among other things, concerns interstellar gas and how this acts with the plasma of the Sun. In practice the aim is to understand how the heliosphere was created and what gases it is composed of. Additional information the team hopes to gather includes what influence the Sun would have on the heliosphere and how its shape changes in our galaxy.

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