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		</div><p>Nasa is switching off two science instruments on its long-running twin Voyager spacecraft to save power.</p>
<p>The space agency said an instrument on Voyager 2 that measures charged particles and cosmic rays will shut off later this month.</p>
<p>Last week, Nasa powered down an instrument on Voyager 1 designed to study cosmic rays.</p>
<p>The energy-saving moves were necessary to extend their missions, said Voyager project manager Suzanne Dodd at the Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory.</p>
<figure id="attachment_185734" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-185734" style="width: 1229px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/IMG_7777.jpeg" alt="" width="1229" height="703" class="size-full wp-image-185734" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-185734" class="wp-caption-text">A Nasa illustration depicting voyager</figcaption></figure>
<p>The twin spacecraft launched in 1977 and are currently in interstellar space, or the space between stars.</p>
<p>Voyager 1 discovered a thin ring around Jupiter and several of Saturn’s moons, and Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune.</p>
<p>Each spacecraft still has three instruments apiece to study the sun’s protective bubble and the swathe of space beyond.</p>
<p>Voyager 1 is more than 15 billion miles from Earth and Voyager 2 is more than 13 billion miles away.</p>
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