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Voyager 1 Nears the Final Frontier

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LAUREL, Md., June 23, 2011 — By the time 2012 comes to a close, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft may finally reach humanity’s last frontier: interstellar space. Cruising through space some 10.8 billion miles from the sun, Voyager 1 has crossed into an area where the velocity of the solar wind – the flow of hot ionized gas emanating directly from the sun – has slowed from 150,000 miles an hour down to near zero. The spacecraft has entered a transitional “layer” within the heliosheath, one between the solar wind and the interstellar medium. Data shows that the solar wind may have...Read full article

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    Published: June 2011
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    solar wind
    The constant outward flow of weakly magnetized plasma from the sun that is deflected by the magnetic field of the earth and, flowing around the field, creates a magnetosphere.
    AmericasCassinienergyheliopauseheliosheathImaginginterstellar spaceJohns Hopkins UniversityLow-Energy Charged Particle sensorMarylandNASAnonphotonic technologyResearch & Technologysolar windStamatios KrimigisTom KrimigisVoyager 1

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