Voyager Enters Final Frontier Of Solar System |
Voyager Enters Final Frontier Of Solar System |
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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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I'm curious to know what science instruments are still functional on each Voyager. I'm aware that the cameras are now permanently turned off Voyager 2 has some more capability at measuring fields and particles over Voyager 1, but what instruments are actually still operational?
And for how long are they expected to remain operational? |
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and about instruments (from wikipedia):
As of the present date, the Voyager 2 and Voyager 1 scan platforms, including all of the platform instruments, have been powered down. The ultraviolet spectrometer (UVS) on Voyager 1 was active until 2003, when it too was deactivated. Gyro operations will end in 2010 for Voyager 2 and 2011 for Voyager 1. Gyro operations are used to rotate the probe 360 degrees six times a year to measure the magnetic field of the spacecraft, which is then subtracted from the magnetometer science data. -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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