It’s still making new discoveries. Interstellar space isn’t acting the way we thought.
And it’s recorded zero solar wind. That may be an ‘artifact’ of a maneuver.
Its position is no artifact: it’s out there.
Voyager is exiting our solar system…entering interstellar space…and still working.
by CJ | Apr 28, 2011 | Journal | 9 comments
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http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/28apr_voyager/ is the article.
I think that’s a fascinating discovery.
Oh, my. I loved that. Loved it. Thanks for sharing.
Yeah, but that ends with Starfleet in pj’s and a very nice bald Indian lady in a bathrobe…and a bunch of very confused AI’s who didn’t clean the probe. — Or the Klingons shoot it.
Kidding aside, that’s great news. Great engineering and science.
Then again, here we have the last shuttle launch, with a very determined lady about to attend. Congratulations to them. I hope manned spaceflight comes back at NASA.
Three cheers for Voyager!
Wayne
The Voyager missions have been ongoing for almost 34 years — there are scientists “doing science” with the data from these missions who weren’t even born when the Voyagers were launched! Somewhere Carl Sagan is grinning such a grin. . . .
James VanAllen of the VanAllen radiation belt also. He was a huge supporter of the non manned space exploration program, and was involved in pretty much every non manned space vehicle launched from Explorer I in 1958 untill his death in 2006
Sometimes it is *so* cool to be living in the future!
The two Voyagers are wonderful. Did you know the Voyagers have Twitter feeds?
http://twitter.com/#!/NASAVoyager1 and http://twitter.com/#!/Voyager2 (which updates much more often).
But see also http://xkcd.com/893/ which serves as a counterpoint. 🙁