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 Lynn   Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 
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Thread closed. Please credit, Gordon Lowe for original thread. Data From NASA's Voyager 1 Point to Interstellar Future Data from NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft indicate that the venerable deep-space explorer has encountered a region in space where the intensity of charged particles from beyond our solar system has markedly increased. Voyager scientists looking at this rapid rise draw closer to an inevitable but historic conclusion - that humanity's first emissary to interstellar space is on the edge of our solar system. ID: 1246514 ·  |
bill  Send message Joined: 27 Apr 12 Posts: 171 Credit: 2,167,701 RAC: 0 
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I was woundering what was happening with that project thank for info ID: 1246520 · |
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123
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I was woundering what was happening with that project thank for info Welcome!  Undated artist's concept illustrating where our solar system's final frontier, the heliosheath, fits in relation to our galaxy. REUTERS/NASA ID: 1246534 · |
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Larry Monske Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 281 Credit: 554,328 RAC: 0
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Voyager 1 11.1 billion miles from earth, voyager 2 9.8 billion miles from earth, both are in a bow shock wave caused by the sun. Seems its concentrateing particles. ID: 1246542 · |
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/voyager20120614.html Data From NASA's Voyager 1 Point to Interstellar Future http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/index.html Latest News http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/ ID: 1247048 · |
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Tee Jay Send message Joined: 25 Jul 10 Posts: 165 Credit: 44,172 RAC: 0
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Awesome. Keep on truckin' Voyagers!! ID: 1247768 · |
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123
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Brilliant stuff, thanks Lynn :-) Yes, indeed. Your welcome, Chris "It is very exciting. We are approaching the solar system's frontier." Maybe we will find out what this means?? Sun Slower Than Previously Thought: New Finding May Upend 'Bow-Shock' Theory ID: 1248253 · |
Kliph  Send message Joined: 13 Jan 12 Posts: 12 Credit: 269,037 RAC: 0
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Great update, thanks. So interesting. I get frustrated when a web page loads slowly. Imagine having the patience to send a signal to Voyager I and then having to wait 33 hours for a response! There may not be air in space but there is an Air in Space Museum. ID: 1248423 · |
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123
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skildude  Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 
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power supplies are going to fade by 2020. lets hope they find more interesting things by then  In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope ID: 1281040 · |
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123
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Assuming the craft continues to function normally, they will have to start turning off other on-board instruments from 2020, and it is expected to run out of power completely in 2025. Yes, indeed hope they find something. ID: 1281327 · |
William Rothamel  Send message Joined: 25 Oct 06 Posts: 3756 Credit: 1,999,735 RAC: 4
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Yes, indeed hope they find something A remarkable achievement but they won't find anything since it will take 75000 years to reach the nearest star and thats if it is even aimed at Proxima Centauri. It's a big place out there folks. ID: 1281363 · |
Nick  Send message Joined: 11 Oct 11 Posts: 4344 Credit: 3,313,107 RAC: 0
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Assuming the craft continues to function normally, they will have to start turning off other on-board instruments from 2020, and it is expected to run out of power completely in 2025. One day, in many years to come, when we can travel through space at speeds far in excess of that possible at the moment, man's quest will be to, "Find Voyagers and recover".... The Kite Fliers -------------------- Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes. ID: 1281390 · |
Dimly Lit Lightbulb 😀  Send message Joined: 30 Aug 08 Posts: 15399 Credit: 7,423,413 RAC: 1
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Not sure it wouldn't be best to let them carry on and see "who else" finds them! Apparently in the future the Klingons come across one of the voyagers and destroy it :(  Member of the People Encouraging Niceness In Society club. 
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Nick Send message Joined: 11 Oct 11 Posts: 4344 Credit: 3,313,107 RAC: 0
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Not sure it wouldn't be best to let them carry on and see "who else" finds them! The Klingons are now relegated to the annals of history. One suspects, via their constant fighting, that they may well have become extinct by now. Can't say the same about the Dalek's though, their bound to be out there somewhere. The Kite Fliers -------------------- Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes. ID: 1281730 · |
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123
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A band led by a Voyager engineer also played "Johnny B. Goode," one of the songs from the Golden Record. The Golden Record is a 12-inch, gold-plated copper disk containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth. The music alone, images, should scare a fictional warrior race. If they are found, please let it be from the planet Antarea. They formed an outpost on the planet Earth, on an island known to mankind as the mythical civilization of Atlantis; according to legend, Atlantis sank as the result of an earthquake. ID: 1281775 · |
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Nick Send message Joined: 11 Oct 11 Posts: 4344 Credit: 3,313,107 RAC: 0
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I still feel that once we achieve the ability to travel through space at or near the speed of light then Voyager travelling through space with a human message attached will be viewed as that similar to placing a message in a bottle and throwing it over-board from a sailing ship. With this view in mind I strongly feel that we will one day recover the Voyagers and bring them back home to rest. The Kite Fliers -------------------- Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes. ID: 1281894 · |
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skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60
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I fear for the future humans. When V'ger returns its going to be pissed In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope ID: 1281925 · |
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123
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From the film Cocoon. So would I...in a heartbeat. ID: 1282063 · |
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