Voyagers Legacy in Pictures

tanveer1979 writes "Space.com has an interesting photo feature from the voyager craft. For the uninformed voyager is the most distant man made object. For the first time we are recieving photos of distant parts of the solar system. Currently voyager is about 12 light hours away. Wonder how far is that? Well Sun is 8 light minutes away from Earth. In case you are wondering what is this all about, check out the current location of voyager. The voyager spacecraft are about to cross heliopause, which is the limit of the rule of the sun, after which inter steller winds take over, and for the first time scientists can get the feel of what lies outside the solar system."

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Corrected link

[MagPulse]

http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/

It's not much, just 10 pictures. Click on "Voyager's Photo Legacy", then again for a Javascript pop-up gallery.

More links

[MagPulse]

Voyager is coming up lately because it just had its 25th anniversary launch date on August 20. Here are some more links:

• More, higher resolution pictures
• Detailed timeline
• A 2 minute NPR segment
• A longer segment at the end of Science News Roundup on NPR

And a few newspaper stories:

• Reuters
• BBC
• Washington Post