NASA's Voyager Hits New Region at Solar System Edge (Earth, spacecraft, universe)
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I find this sentence to be very telling as to where Earth is located in our universe....... "Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region between our solar system and interstellar space. Data obtained from Voyager over the last year reveal this new region to be a kind of cosmic purgatory. "Voyager tells us now that we're in a stagnation region in the outermost layer of the bubble around our solar system......"
Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 and 2 are in good health.
That's just beyond astonishing. That scientists came up with a device that has returned far in excess of anything it was designed to do is just beyond comprehension... at least for me. And to think, I recall standing with my grade school buddy in his backyard watching Sputnik blip by. We were in the 5th grade... or somewhere thereabouts.
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Originally Posted by tofurkey
That's just beyond astonishing. That scientists came up with a device that has returned far in excess of anything it was designed to do is just beyond comprehension... at least for me. And to think, I recall standing with my grade school buddy in his backyard watching Sputnik blip by. We were in the 5th grade... or somewhere thereabouts.
And yet we can't get my toaster to last 3 years - WTF!
Lots of good info on your posted link there PITTS!
By the way did they ever figure out about the unknown anomoly that was ''controlling'' the Voyagers as they were approaching the edge of the heliosphere ?
I take this to mean that our region of space is a stagnate backwater that is unlike the space outside of this "bubble" we live in!!
Then we would be the 'pond scum' of the universe
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