11billion miles from home: Incredible images taken from Voyager 1 show Earth as tiny dot as the spacecraft prepares to cross solar system’s final frontier into interstellar space

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11billion miles from home: Incredible images taken from Voyager 1 show Earth as tiny dot as the spacecraft prepares to cross solar system’s final frontier into interstellar space

By Dennis / September 2, 2012 / No Comments

By Eddie Wrenn | Daily Mail

Voyager 1 beams back images of our planet as it explores the furthest fringes of the solar system

It has clocked up an astonishing 11billion miles in its 35-year journey.

And now, as the spacecraft Voyager 1 explores the furthest fringes of our solar system, incredible images of the Earth have been beamed back from a camera on board the probe.

This tiny dot, amid a band of coloured rays, is our planet, as seen from staggering distance of 11,100,000,000 miles away.

This latest image taken by Voyager and released by Nasa shows the Earth as a dot in the solar system as the twin spacecraft explore the edge of our solar system

Poised to cross into interstellar space: This image, taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft, shows a volcanic plume on the Jupiter Moon Io

The twin spacecraft of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 – one of Man’s earliest rockets – were launched in 1977 to explore the outer planets including Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

Voyager 1 has reached the our solar system’s final frontier and is poised to cross into interstellar space.

The probe has also beamed back incredible images of the Jupiter Moon Io, showing a volcanic plume.

Last month, Voyager 1 signalled it had passed two of the ‘key changes’ expected when it passes out of the furthest fringes of our solar system.

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