Come on, did you suspect that the smell of rotten eggs might one day lead to practical interstellar space travel? |
Most will crash into the Sun, strike another planet, or be flung by Jupiter's gravity into interstellar space. |
Technologies based on resources drawn from all over the Solar System will make interstellar trips affordable. |
That includes two Voyager probes looking for the heliopause, where true interstellar space begins. |
It is divided into two half-circle formed segments by a dark lane of interstellar dust in front of it. |
The Earth sits in a stream of accelerated particles coming in from the Sun, interstellar material, and galactic sources. |