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Voyager 1 Speeds Toward The Brink Of Interstellar Space
27 Dec 2011 10:05 #1
by ScienceChic
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
And it's still transmitting data back!
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/201 ... c=fb&cc=fp
Voyager 1 Speeds Toward The Brink Of Interstellar Space
by Bill Chappell
December 26, 2011
NASA/JPL-Caltech
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/201 ... c=fb&cc=fp
Voyager 1 Speeds Toward The Brink Of Interstellar Space
by Bill Chappell
December 26, 2011
NASA/JPL-Caltech
An artist's conception shows Voyager 1 encountering a stagnation region. To the left is interstellar space.[/i]
The Voyager 1 spacecraft is 11 billion miles from the sun. And every minute, it gets 636 miles closer to its destination: the frontier of interstellar space.
The craft is currently in what NASA calls, not undramatically, "the boundary between the solar wind from the Sun and the interstellar wind from death-explosions of other stars," an area that astrophysicists also call, less dramatically, a stagnation layer.
When Voyager 1 crosses that threshold, it'll become the first man-made object to do so.
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
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27 Dec 2011 18:32 #3
by ScienceChic
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
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LOL! 
It may yet become that!
It may yet become that! "Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
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