UNIVERSE
SOLAR SYSTEM FORMATION
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Question
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Study Kuiper’s Belt
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Studied Uranus and Neptune in detail.
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Discovered Uranus’s unique axial tilt.
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Visited Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: Yes, the Voyager 1 space probe passed the outer limits of the Kuiper belt many years ago. Currently, it is located approximately 14 billion miles from the sun, a distance that equates to approximately 151 astronomical units.
Detailed explanation-2: -The first spacecraft to enter the Kuiper Belt region was NASA’s Pioneer 10 spacecraft when it crossed into the space beyond Neptune’s orbit in 1983. But the first spacecraft to visit an object in the Kuiper Belt was New Horizons when it flew by Pluto and its moons. New Horizons then went on to visit Arrokoth.
Detailed explanation-3: -Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977, to study the outer planets and interstellar space beyond the Sun’s heliosphere.
Detailed explanation-4: -Once Voyager 1 had successfully gathered data at Titan, Voyager 2 was allowed to go on to Uranus and Neptune. Voyager 2, theoretically, could have been aimed for Pluto, but the aim point would have been inside the planet of Neptune-not very practical. So Pluto was the only outer planet the Voyagers didn’t visit.