Voyager 2 science experiment shut down to preserve power
The deep space probe has many years of life left in it
Photo: NASA
Voyager 2, headed into interstellar space 13 billion miles from Earth, is running low on power. To conserve it, the NASA team in charge of the iconic explorer is shutting down scientific instruments.
Mission engineers sent a command to shutter the Voyager 2's Plasma Science, or PLS, experiment — which was used to observe solar winds — on Septe…
