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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Nov 1 2015, 06:12 PM
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Sometime it take time for the analysis to appear. And that is the case for Voyager 1 passing the heliopause. But it might still be a whole decade before the spacecraft will be in true interstellar space. Data from IBEX have led the researchers to this conclusion. A nice summary can be found at EurekAlert The count for 0,5 MeV ions by Voyager 2 have made a dip after reaching values never seen before in open space, this might indicate that it is close to the same boundary. Then again, the count for higher energy particles have actually been dropping, so we might have to wait for any of the pros to give an estimate of what actually is going on here. |
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