Voyager Enters Final Frontier Of Solar System |
Voyager Enters Final Frontier Of Solar System |
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Jun 3 2005, 10:47 PM
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http://planetary.org/news/2005/voyager-upd...ation_0524.html
Voyager 1, the most distant human-made object in space, has crossed the termination shock, the last major threshold in the solar system, team members announced today at the annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. |
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Apr 17 2008, 09:31 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1669 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Boulder, CO Member No.: 184 |
I saw a nice talk that Ed Stone gave on this topic three days ago. It will be interesting to follow along for a decade or so to see what the magnetic field looks like when Voyager gets completely into the interstellar medium.
-------------------- Steve [ my home page and planetary maps page ]
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