13/09/2013 Newsround

September, you've been telling us or putting the first man on the

spacecraft has become the first solar system. This is Big News.

carrying humanity's message out 1977. So the launch of Voyager

carrying humanity's message out spaceship about the size and weight

of a small car. Flung from the atmosphere to explore the Solar

System and to send back pictures of millions of miles away. It is never

The lonely robot, equipped with millions of miles away. It is never

computer with 240,000 times less memory than an iPhone is about

computer with 240,000 times less passed Jupiter, discovering three

new moons and finding that the gas giant had a ring of dust around

new moons and finding that the gas It whizzed past Saturn and Neptune,

flying past Pluto's orbit. NASA confirmed it has left the Solar

System, the only man-made thing confirmed it has left the Solar

This is like circumnavigating the globe for the first time or having a

footprint on the Moon. This is the first time we have begun to explore

So, just how far is 12 billion miles? To go that far, if driving in

a car. It would take more than information back to Earth, even

a car. It would take more than hours. It has sent back amazing

images, pictures of Jupiter's red spot, to this incredible pick of

Earth. A speck. Voyager has not spot, to this incredible pick of

to live. It is too far from the spot, to this incredible pick of

a golden disc, filled with animal spot, to this incredible pick of

Tim, can you help us get a sense of just how far away Voyager is now?

to scale but if this basketball just how far away Voyager is now?

the Sun and this tennis ball is just how far away Voyager is now?

Earth, 5cm apart, that's 92 million miles - then Voyager is way over the

other side of the studio. What are McDonald and very empty. Much less

stuff out there than there is in the How significant is this for the

human ration? I think it is very significant. In the future, I hope,

between the planets. We may even travel between the stars. This is

the first object that we have built that has started the journey. It has

taken the first step beyond the that has started the journey. It has

into the space that exists between The mission was meant to last three

years? It was. 36 years it has been travelling. It started work in the

1980s, it is still carrying on the Check out our clip on the website.

It is worth a watch. Time for some other news. This morning we told you

about a man trying to become the first man ever to cross the Atlantic

ocean, using a bunch of helium balloons, a bit like in the film Up!

Despite having 370 balloons to lift him, Jonathan Trappe had to stop the

problems, but next, ever heard of paraskevydeckatryaphobia? It is

problems, but next, ever heard of fear of Friday the 13th. Some reckon

that today is unlucky but rumour has it that using a word can help to

stop that phobia. All together now, paraskevydeckatryaphobia! Enough of

that. Here is what you have been saying about Friday the 13th. Beryl