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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Mar 14 2006, 04:00 PM
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Astrophysics, abstract
astro-ph/0603318 From: Merav Opher [view email] Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 19:30:59 GMT (539kb) Effects of a Local Interstellar Magnetic Field on Voyager 1 and 2 Observations Authors: Merav Opher, Edward C. Stone, Paulett C. Liewer Comments: 12 pages, 5 figures Journal-ref: Astrophysical Journal Letters v.640, 71, 2006 We show that that an interstellar magnetic field can produce a north/south asymmetry in solar wind termination shock. Using Voyager 1 and 2 measurements, we suggest that the angle $\alpha$ between the interstellar wind velocity and magnetic field is $30^{\circ} < \alpha < 60^{\circ}$. The distortion of the shock is such that termination shock particles could stream outward along the spiral interplanetary magnetic field connecting Voyager 1 to the shock when the spacecraft was within $\sim 2~AU$ of the shock. The shock distortion is larger in the southern hemisphere, and Voyager 2 could be connected to the shock when it is within $\sim 5~AU$ of the shock, but with particles from the shock streaming inward along the field. Tighter constraints on the interstellar magnetic field should be possible when Voyager 2 crosses the shock in the next several years. http://fr.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0603318 -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Mar 16 2006, 11:32 PM
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From updated solar wind speed diagram, Voyager-2 experienced a repentine increase (more than 100 Km/s) at the end of February/beginning of March.
In my understanding, transition through termination shock should produce a dramatic wind speed decrease, so this is not the case... Anyway still intriguing, because even if in the past Voyager-2 already observed speed close to 500 Km/s, now increase seems more repentine and appear associated to one of the largest ions density spikes ever observed by the spacecraft... Any suggestion? -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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Mar 25 2006, 03:13 AM
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From updated solar wind speed diagram, Voyager-2 experienced a repentine increase (more than 100 Km/s) at the end of February/beginning of March. In my understanding, transition through termination shock should produce a dramatic wind speed decrease, so this is not the case... Anyway still intriguing, because even if in the past Voyager-2 already observed speed close to 500 Km/s, now increase seems more repentine and appear associated to one of the largest ions density spikes ever observed by the spacecraft... Any suggestion? How bright is the light of the sun at the place where the pioneers and the voyagers are at (this) moment? Or is it completely dark there now ,please can you tell me that? Thanks. |
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Mar 25 2006, 06:40 PM
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How bright is the light of the sun at the place where the pioneers and the voyagers are at (this) moment? Or is it completely dark there now ,please can you tell me that? Thanks. Well, the apparent brightness of the Sun varies as the inverse square of your distance from the Sun. Right now Voyager 1 is about a hundred times farther from the Sun than we are. So that means that, as seen from Voyager 1, the Sun is about one ten-thousandth as bright as what we are used to. That's still about 500 times brighter than a full Moon, though. So although the Sun would look like a star from Voyager 1, it would be a really, really bright star. |
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May 15 2006, 09:53 PM
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Well, the apparent brightness of the Sun varies as the inverse square of your distance from the Sun. Right now Voyager 1 is about a hundred times farther from the Sun than we are. So that means that, as seen from Voyager 1, the Sun is about one ten-thousandth as bright as what we are used to. That's still about 500 times brighter than a full Moon, though. So although the Sun would look like a star from Voyager 1, it would be a really, really bright star. Rob: Any idea how far from the Sun the human eye can still see colour rather than using monochrome 'night' vision? Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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