Voyager 1 Discovers Bizarre and Baffling Region at Edge of Solar System

[vienna]

Might be of interest to you:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/06/voyager-unexpected-region/

Voyager seems to be the most "bang for the buck" probe ever sent into space...

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[Karle94]

One day we will launch Voyager 6, and it will return as V´Ger.

[Schroeder]

Interesting story.:salute:

[AVGWarhawk]

Lonely, cold and far from home Voyager 1 is. This piece of technology from decades ago might surprise us yet.

[Jimbuna]

Lonely, cold and far from home Voyager 1 is. This piece of technology from decades ago might surprise us yet.

Could well do :yep:

[HW3]

One day we will launch Voyager 6, and it will return as V´Ger.

V'Ger
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v64/davestev47/Misc/VGer_zps4ac6504f.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/davestev47/media/Misc/VGer_zps4ac6504f.jpg.html)

:subsim:

[vienna]

Some years ago, I had the opportunity to see an actual Mercury space capsule up close. I looked into the astronaut's cockpit and was surprised by how relatively primative the technology used at the time was compared with today. Granted, the Voyager was launched about a decade and a half after the first Mercury launches, but the techology was still "sticks and stones" compared to now. The continued operation of the Voyagers is a monument and tribute to the quality and genius of those early engineers and scientists...

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[Wolferz]

"Warp speed Mr. Sulu."

Oh MY!:sunny:
It's no surprise to me that the Voyager spacecraft have sent back new info that only raises more questions about the nature of our little corner of the Milky Way galaxy.
In my short time span I've already seen numerous science fiction concepts become science fact.
One of these days we'll see Gene Roddenberry's science fiction become science fact too.:up: That is if we can ever manage to see past our differences and work together to achieve it. Unfortunately I don't see this happening in my lifetime.:dead:

[TarJak]

Great to see science being able to test its theories. Will be interesting to see what the future of this mission holds.

[Sailor Steve]

Oh, "Region"! At first I thought the title said "Religion". :88)

[TarJak]

Oh, "Region"! At first I thought the title said "Religion". :88)

Now that would be an interesting find.:D

[WernherVonTrapp]

Personally, I'm not the least bit surprised to read:

"Voyager 1 spacecraft recently entered a bizarre new region at the solar system’s edge that has physicists baffled. Their theories don’t predict anything like it."

"Scientists initially thought that Voyager’s transition into this new realm, where effects from the rest of the galaxy become more pronounced, would be gradual and unexciting. But it’s proven to be far more complicated than anything researchers had imagined, with the spacecraft now encountering a strange region that scientists are struggling to make sense of.

The models that have been thought to predict what should happen are all incorrect,” said physicist Stamatios Krimigis of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, who is lead author of one of three new papers on Voyager appearing in Science on June 27. “We essentially have absolutely no reliable roadmap of what to expect at this point.

For his part, Krimigis didn’t even want to speculate on what Voyager might encounter next because theorists’ models have so far not worked extremely well.
"I’m convinced that nature is far more imaginative than we are," he said."

[AVGWarhawk]

I'm more surprised Voyager is still functioning. I can only image what it has passed and seen that was not transmitted back to earth. It is a micro-dot in the vastness of space. Insignificant can't begin to express how small Voyager is yet large enough to carry on after decades of travel. Simply astonishing if you think about it.

[Karle94]

It will still be able to transmit data back to Earth in 2025-2030.

[vienna]

It will still be able to transmit data back to Earth in 2025-2030.


Something to keep in mind when your mobile says "Service Unavailable"...

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