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Originally Posted by viking
Hi DJmoder...
This space probe here...
"An interplanetary space probe that has travelled 5.5billion miles over 18 years has officially ceased operations.
Ulysses had circled the Sun three times during its voyage of discovery. It will now be left to continue its wide elliptical orbit around our local star for ever more."
further reading here..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...n-forever.html
Also if you click on the links on this thread it works....not sure if they work on the Nexus thread...don't know why?!!
viking |
Thank you viking. I can see it now. This is a very interesting finding.