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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Dec 24 2012, 09:34 PM
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V2 is clearly in a very different environment to V1. V2 has had a very gradual decline over the past year to about 50% of initial levels. V1 was almost static at a fixed level until a very sudden and rapid decline by an order of magnitude in literally a day that bounced back and forth a little then dropped for good. Fascinating.
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Jan 1 2013, 10:50 AM
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V2 is clearly in a very different environment to V1. My little personal hypothesis is that it is the same environment, the graph certainly dropped like a rock for V1 - which made me pay attention that something had happened. V1 are heading in a direction nearly bulls eye on the solar apex (the direction which the sun are travelling) - so the sphere might be somewhat flattened there and the border zone itself compressed. But that V2 are entering it at a point nearly 90 degrees from the solar apex and so the process will take a longer time. Since my post the particle count have started to drop down again - but as said, my post were merely a heads-up I am fully aware from my own work not to build intricate theories on just a hump in a graph. =) |
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