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Have aliens taken over Voyager 2 spacecraft? | After leaving Earth's surface 33 years ago, the Voyager
2 spacecraft may have been hijacked by aliens, it has been claimed. Scientists
had installed a 12-inch disk containing music and greetings in 55 languages in
case intelligent extraterrestrial life ever found it, but the spacecraft is sending
signals in an unknown format. "It seems almost as if someone had reprogrammed
or hijacked the probe - thus perhaps we do not yet know the whole truth," The
Daily Telegraph quoted alien expert Hartwig Hausdorf as saying. The spacecraft
late last month began sending science data 8.6 billion miles to Earth in a changed
format that mission managers could not decode. Engineers are working to solve
the data transmissions and have since instructed Voyager 2 to only transmit data
on its own health and status while they work on the problem. Launched in 1977,
Voyager 2 and its twin, Voyager 1, explored the giant planets Jupiter, Saturn,
Uranus and Neptune and kept on going. Nearly 33 years later, they are the most
distant human-made objects. Voyager 1 is 10.5 billion miles from Earth and in
about five years is expected to pass through the heliosphere, a bubble the sun
creates around the solar system, and enter interstellar space. Voyager 2 will
follow after that. |
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