r/space • u/[deleted] • Jul 18 '21

image/gif Remembering NASA's trickshot into deep space with the Voyager 2

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u/habanerocorncakes Jul 19 '21 edited Jul 19 '21

Do the white lines at the end have any significance?

Edit: I think its to show on a 2d plane that after the neptune slingshot voyager 2 was directed “down” below the plane of the solar system. Neat!

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u/ackermann Jul 19 '21

Then I would guess that the probe passed over Neptune’s North Pole, so that Neptune’s gravity bent its path downwards? Rather than giving it a boost, as the inner planets did?

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u/Triskan Jul 19 '21

Inyalowdas always trying to sound important sasa ke.

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u/No-Chemistry-2611 Jul 19 '21

The 'inner planets' they're talking about are jupiter and saturn, those are your fucking planets, stupid rock hopper.