JEMC said:
Lafiel said:
JEMC said:
So NASA prefers tried and tested technology over raw power... they're the Nintendo of the space exploration! (j/k)
And, not to be one of those guys but this line "This chip is going to parts of space where man-made objects have never been before, ...". That guy has never heard about the Voyager probes?
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neither of the Voyager probes visited Pluto, Voyager 1 swung by Jupiter and Saturn and then left the orbital plane to exit our solar system on the shortest way, Voyager 2 stayed in the plane until Neptune and then left it aswell
New Horizons will be the first probe to visit Kuiper belt objects
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So the Voyagers left our solar system without going through the Kuiper belt?
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yes, the Kuiper belt is located roughly on the orbital plane (with a lot more deviation than the planets show), which is why it's a "belt" and not a "cloud" like the oort cloud that is all around our solar system, but in the directions the voyager probes were sent to "exit the solar system" (exit the territory dominated by solar particles) that one is still far away
and actually the existance of the Kuiper belt was only proven 15 years after the Voyager missions started
