1977, the year Voyager 1 was launched. No longer in its teenage years, in early 2019, it had reached a point in space no human created object had travelled to, and transmitted back images of a planet it sought to focus on – Ultima Thule. Thinking about this a month after the event feels like a long past event, historical. But scientists had planned for this several human generations ago; to some, even the launch was before they were born. Human creativity and capacity in science is phenomenal. As someone completely uninformed about planetary science, I’m sure much of the […]
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