the.com/voyager probes
two golden records hurtling into forever, still phoning home from beyond the sun's front porch.
means nasa's twin 1977 spacecraft that toured the outer planets and are now the farthest human-made objects, drifting through interstellar space.
from launched weeks apart in 1977 to exploit a rare planetary alignment allowing a grand tour of jupiter, saturn, uranus and neptune in one trip, a geometry that occurs once every 175 years.
golden recordcarries earth sounds and music for aliens
power sourceplutonium batteries decaying since carter was president
current statusvoyager 1 is over 15 billion miles out
expected silencetransmitters will finally die around 2025