Voyager Enters Final Frontier Of Solar System Options

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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.

[RoverDriver]

I think that Voyagers are the coolest mission. Whenever I go to the Von Karman here at JPL where they have a replica I'm always amazed by their size.

Paolo

[jasedm]

I think that Voyagers are the coolest mission.

Paolo

Seconded.

[dilo]

I think this combined plot speaks by itself:

V1 is definitively inside a totally new region...
Source: http://voyager.gsfc.nasa.gov/heliopause/he...recenthist.html

[TheAnt]

It really looks like it.
That particle/proton rate have stayed low for 2 more weeks, whereas the galactic cosmic rays continue to climb slowly.
And turning of the spacecraft to look for any possible sideway movement did show that the particles were not moving sideways either.
(Also described in the summary linked by Paolo.)

Isn't that exactly the conditions to expect at the boundary of the heliopause?

Now data from IBEX suggest there might be no bow shock zone at all. So all will depend on how deep this area might be, after that Voyager 1 might very well be in true Interstellar space.

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