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I habe a question about the two probes: are they sending information now?? if they do, what kind of information???

All that's running on the Voyagers are some of the Fields and Particles experiments, I think - there's nothing to take pictures of out there . I think the aim is to keep them going for as long as possible, in the hope that one or both will get through the Heliopause (the edge of the sun's magnetic field) and enter truly interstellar space.

I remember reading a few months ago, that Voyager 1 was expected to enter the heliopause region in between 3 and 10 years, and it's RTG power was expected to last another 15 years or so. So hopefully our predictions about where the heliopause is are correct, because otherwise we'll have to wait until the end of the New Horizons mission in about 30 years to find out...