Interstellar space even weirder than expected, NASA probe reveals

[Makuser]

In the blackness of space billions of miles from home, NASA’s Voyager 2 marked a milestone of exploration, becoming just the second spacecraft ever to enter interstellar space in November 2018. Now, a day before the anniversary of that celestial exit, scientists have revealed what Voyager 2 saw as it crossed the threshold—and it’s giving humans new insight into some of the big mysteries of our solar system. The findings, spread across five studies published today in Nature Astronomy, mark the first time that a spacecraft has directly sampled the electrically charged hazes, or plasmas, that fill both interstellar space and the solar system’s farthest outskirts. It’s another first for the spacecraft, which was launched in 1977 and performed the first—and only—flybys of the ice giant planets Uranus and Neptune. (Find out more about the Voyager probes’ “grand tour”—and why it almost didn’t happen). You can read the entire interesting article and view some great photos from Voyager 2's solar system tour here, at:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/scie ... 2-reveals/

[Juno16]

Thanks Marshall,

The Voyager missions are certainly a major achievement of our generation.

Thanks for the sharing. I don’t actively keep up with many on-going projects, but I really appreciate the shares on our forum to help me keep up with things.

Thanks,
Jim

[Ylem]

Thanks for posting, good article. I remember those probes from my HS days
Good to get info on them

[smp]

Here's another article from Ars Technica:

"A bonanza of data from the second Voyager to reach the Solar System’s edge"
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11 ... tems-edge/

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