With the lunar eclipse over the weekend and peoples raised interest in spce for the next couple days I figured I'd post this up...I think this is actually really kool...here's a part of the article
"The spacecraft Voyager 1 is still sending data back to NASA, the U.S. government space agency, after more than 26 years in space. It is now the most distant man-made object in space, traveling billions of kilometers from earth and perhaps reaching the outer edges of our solar system... There is no conclusion on whether or not Voyager has actually passed the so-called 'Termination Shock,' where the spacecraft would encounter a dramatic drop in solar wind speed and an increase in interstellar plasma or particles... [regardless] scientists are gathering data from truly unknown territory and are scratching their heads over numbers being sent from a spacecraft that should have died 20 years ago."
full article at http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=B017478E-A14F-4B3A-A9FC6ABD9F1174B4
"The spacecraft Voyager 1 is still sending data back to NASA, the U.S. government space agency, after more than 26 years in space. It is now the most distant man-made object in space, traveling billions of kilometers from earth and perhaps reaching the outer edges of our solar system... There is no conclusion on whether or not Voyager has actually passed the so-called 'Termination Shock,' where the spacecraft would encounter a dramatic drop in solar wind speed and an increase in interstellar plasma or particles... [regardless] scientists are gathering data from truly unknown territory and are scratching their heads over numbers being sent from a spacecraft that should have died 20 years ago."
full article at http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=B017478E-A14F-4B3A-A9FC6ABD9F1174B4
