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Inscription on the plasma spectrometer.
Cultural Centre of European Space Technologies.
One of the most important instruments
humans have ever sent into space, the PLS has
played a crucial role in the exploration of deep
space by the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space
probes, whose objectives included up-close in-
vestigation of the gas giants beyond the aste-
roid belt. The ultimate aim of the missions was
KNOWLEDGE BELONGS
TO EVERYONE
In 2013 Mavretič donated several hundred
to determine the boundary of the Solar System. kilograms of his research materials to the Nati-
manmade object to pass this boundary; obta- a profound message in support of the accessibi-
On 25 August 2013, Voyager 1 became the first
ining and analysing the data demonstrating
this achievement was made possible by the PLS.
The solar wind is a simplified term for the
stream of charged particles – particularly pro-
tons and electrons – emitted by the Sun into
interplanetary space.
onal and University Library in Ljubljana, sending
lity of knowledge. In a world in which scientific
achievements and patents, in particular advan-
ced technologies, quickly fall prey to private in-
terests, he wanted to make his findings freely
available to future generations of students and
researchers because only humanity as a whole
can lay claim to knowledge.
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