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Topic: NASA's Voyager probes: Questions, comments
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 26836
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-06-2012 03:16 PM
   
NASA's Voyager probes: questions and commentsThis thread is intended for comments and questions regarding the updates under: NASA's Voyager probes: milestones and updates. Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are operating as part of the Voyager Interstellar Mission, an extended mission to explore the solar system outside the neighborhood of the outer planets. NASA's Voyagers are the two most distant active representatives of humanity and its desire to explore. |
Rick Boos
Member Posts: 828
From: Celina,Ohio U.S.A.
Registered: Feb 2000
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posted 07-06-2012 03:17 PM
Isn't it amazing that the Voyager spacecrafts have traveled that many years and miles without colliding into something major? |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 1979
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 07-07-2012 09:32 AM
Not really. Space is huge. Objects big enough to destroy or disable a space probe are very rare, even in the Asteroid Belt (as evidenced by the fact that no spacecraft has been destroyed or disabled while passing through it). |
Philip
Member Posts: 4759
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 12-22-2012 10:47 AM
This month the Voyager project is exactly 40 years old!In July 1972, NASA accepted the proposal and by mid December 1972, they signed the project agreement, appointed Harris Bud Schurmeier as project manager and assembled a science steering group headed by professor Edward Stone of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 26836
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 03-21-2013 05:21 AM
Yesterday, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) put out a press release titled: Voyager 1 has Left the Solar System, Sudden Changes in Cosmic Rays Indicate This, understandably, resulted in a flurry of news articles reporting the milestone.Unfortunately, it was false. NASA's Voyager team soon issued its own statement, disputing the claim, pointing to their own announcement in December that Voyager had entered a new region of the solar system, called "the magnetic highway," where energetic particles change dramatically. The AGU then updated their release, with a new headline: Voyager 1 has entered a new region of space, sudden changes in cosmic rays indicate ...but the damage was already done; so don't be surprised if "Voyager has left the building solar system" articles float around the internet for years to come... |
moorouge
Member Posts: 1453
From: U.K.
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 05-16-2013 02:37 PM
All this begs the question - how does one define the solar system? | |
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