🌌 Voyager 2’s “Final Images” – What They Really Mean
1. Where Voyager 2 Is Now
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Launched: 1977, part of NASA’s Voyager program.
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Current Location: More than 12 billion miles (20 billion km) from Earth, traveling beyond the heliosphere (the bubble of particles and magnetic fields created by the Sun).
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Status: Still operational, though power is very limited; instruments are slowly being turned off.
2. The “Final Images”
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Voyager 2 did not carry a dedicated imaging mission beyond Neptune.
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The last official pictures it took were of Neptune and its moon Triton in 1989.
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After that, the cameras were turned off to conserve power.
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So, when people say “final images,” they usually mean those Neptune/Triton photos or the spacecraft’s instrument data converted into visuals.
