Speaking of space exploration the Voyager 2 team tweeted me this update:
Quote:NASAVoyager2 @NASAVoyager2
Adjusting my sun sensor bias to better point my High Gain Antenna at Earth: SS BIAS CONTROL YAW 4+163 (AACS:AC7SSB) http://ow.ly/i/1iWLy
Voyager 2 is currently more that 15 billion kilometers from earth (voyager 1 more than 18 billion).
In this video Voyager 2 is the object that stays in the plan of the plans and comes toward you. It did the Uranus and Neptune flyby.
Animation:
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/a...SELECT.mov
Impressive that these gizmos are still working after more that 35 years in space.