# Tinfoil for the stars, or how kitchen tinfoil saved the Voyager missions

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**Created:** [September 27, 2017, 11:22am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/tinfoil-for-the-stars-or-how-kitchen-tinfoil-saved-the-voyager-missions/27797 "2017-09-27T11:22:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yiole\_Gionglao](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/yiole_gionglao/32/374866_2.png) [@Yiole\_Gionglao](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Yiole_Gionglao)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2017, 11:22am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/tinfoil-for-the-stars-or-how-kitchen-tinfoil-saved-the-voyager-missions/27797/1 "2017-09-27T11:22:39Z")

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> **[NASA wrapped its most famous spacecraft in aluminum kitchen foil — a last-minute...](http://www.businessinsider.com/voyager-kitchen-aluminum-wrap-radiation-short-circuit-2017-9)**
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> Engineers bought all of the kitchen-grade aluminum foil they could find at a supermarket to protect the Voyager probes from Jupiter's wrath.

I don’t know what’s more amazing: that they figured a solution so fast… that it worked… or that whenever someone retrieves those probes, some elements in them still will be wrapped in kitchen aluminum foil from a supermarket in Florida. 🤣

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**Author:** ![Nana\_Skalski](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/nana_skalski/32/489985_2.png) [@Nana\_Skalski](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Nana_Skalski)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2017, 11:34am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/tinfoil-for-the-stars-or-how-kitchen-tinfoil-saved-the-voyager-missions/27797/2 "2017-09-27T11:34:58Z")

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They could have included few slices of bakon and egg on a samwich, for aliens of course. 😋

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**Author:** ![Val\_Kaleth](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/val_kaleth/32/187364_2.png) [@Val\_Kaleth](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Val_Kaleth)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2017, 6:07pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/tinfoil-for-the-stars-or-how-kitchen-tinfoil-saved-the-voyager-missions/27797/3 "2017-09-27T18:07:53Z")

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Sometimes the most simple ideas are the most brilliant.

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**Author:** ![Ian\_Morbius](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ian_morbius/32/476592_2.png) [@Ian\_Morbius](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ian_Morbius)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2017, 9:38pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/tinfoil-for-the-stars-or-how-kitchen-tinfoil-saved-the-voyager-missions/27797/4 "2017-09-27T21:38:54Z")

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Just viewed this Voyager documentary last night. Really enjoyable.

[The Farthest(2017)](http://www.pbs.org/the-farthest/home/)

> **[Crescents of Neptune and Triton](https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA02215)**
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> This dramatic view of the crescents of Neptune and Triton was acquired by Voyager 2 approximately 3 days, 6 and one-half hours after its closest approach to Neptune (north is to the right).

One of the last pictures taken by Voyager II.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2017, 9:39pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/tinfoil-for-the-stars-or-how-kitchen-tinfoil-saved-the-voyager-missions/27797/5 "2017-12-26T21:39:01Z")

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