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Surprises from the Edge of the Solar System
NASA Headlines ^
| 9-21-06
| Dr. Tony Phillips
Posted on 09/21/2006 2:38:20 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
Sept. 21, 2006: Almost every day, the great antennas of NASA's Deep Space Network turn to a blank patch of sky in the constellation Ophiuchus. Pointing at nothing, or so it seems, they invariably pick up a signal, faint but full of intelligence. The source is beyond Neptune, beyond Pluto, on the verge of the stars themselves.
It's Voyager 1. The spacecraft left Earth in 1977 on a mission to visit Jupiter and Saturn. Almost 30 years later, with the gas giants long ago seen and done, Voyager 1 is still going and encountering some strange things....
(Excerpt) Read more at science.nasa.gov ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cosmicrays; heliosheath; nasa; ophiuchus; solarsystem; solarwind; voyager1; xplanets
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American engineered and still going 30 years later! Pretty good for guys who started out using slide rules and learned vacuum tube electronics....
To: Pete from Shawnee Mission; Dog; Two Thirds Vote Aye
LOL! Well you have to begin somewhere!
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posted on
09/21/2006 2:40:45 PM PDT
by
Molly Pitcher
(We are Americans...the sons and daughters of liberty...*.from FReeper the Real fifi*))
To: Pete from Shawnee Mission
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posted on
09/21/2006 2:41:45 PM PDT
by
steveo
(ADVERTISEMENT)
To: Molly Pitcher
I was just going to ping you and Thirds..
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posted on
09/21/2006 2:42:29 PM PDT
by
Dog
To: Pete from Shawnee Mission
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posted on
09/21/2006 2:42:44 PM PDT
by
Kolokotronis
(Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
To: Pete from Shawnee Mission
.....so now I can't get any privacy in Ophiuchus either.
This makes me regret ever leaving Pluto in the first place.
Who knew??!!!
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posted on
09/21/2006 2:42:48 PM PDT
by
PoorMuttly
(FREE MEXICO - Repatriate the Refugees)
To: Pete from Shawnee Mission
Vger wants to meet God. O_O
To: Pete from Shawnee Mission
Do you suppose that global warming could one day poke a hole in the heliosheath?
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posted on
09/21/2006 2:46:54 PM PDT
by
Savage Beast
( 9/11 was never repeated thanks to President George W. Bush.)
To: Pete from Shawnee Mission
Press Release
From The Democratic National Committee Headquarters
We're pleased to report that Voyager 1 continues going strong 30 years after it was built and launched.
As you may remember, Voyager 1 was launched in 1977 during Jimmy Carter's term as President. Which shows once more that Democratic leadership can accomplish miracles.
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posted on
09/21/2006 2:48:16 PM PDT
by
KenHorse
To: Pete from Shawnee Mission
Ummm...there's no chance that Voyager could pop the heliosheath as it exits and the whole bubble deflates, is there?
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posted on
09/21/2006 2:50:32 PM PDT
by
jim macomber
(Author: "Bargained for Exchange", "Art & Part", "A Grave Breach" http://www.jamesmacomber.com)
To: Savage Beast
Vger wants to meet God. O_O The worst Star Trek Movie ever (next to #6 that is....)
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posted on
09/21/2006 2:50:37 PM PDT
by
KenHorse
To: Savage Beast
"Do you suppose that global warming could one day poke a hole in the heliosheath?"We must act now to protect the heliosheath! We can't afford not to act. Think of the children... /sarcasm
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posted on
09/21/2006 2:51:06 PM PDT
by
gorush
(Exterminate the Moops!)
To: jim macomber
I don't think it makes any sense to worry about it . . . .
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posted on
09/21/2006 2:51:32 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: steveo
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posted on
09/21/2006 2:52:07 PM PDT
by
null and void
(There's no nothing. End of report. Any questions?)
To: jim macomber
Ummm...there's no chance that Voyager could pop the heliosheath as it exits and the whole bubble deflates, is there? Yes! Then the whole solar system will go flying backwards around the universe!
(Newton's Third Law for those of you in Rio Linda)
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posted on
09/21/2006 2:52:33 PM PDT
by
KenHorse
To: KenHorse
Yes! Then the whole solar system will go flying backwards around the universe! (Newton's Third Law for those of you in Rio Linda)But the flatulent sound it would otherwise make won't be heard in the vacuum, right?
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posted on
09/21/2006 2:56:06 PM PDT
by
jim macomber
(Author: "Bargained for Exchange", "Art & Part", "A Grave Breach" http://www.jamesmacomber.com)
To: Pete from Shawnee Mission
It was just designed for about 3 years. Originally the Voyager probes were just designed to do a flyby of Jupiter and Saturn (and take a close look at the moon Titan). The mission planners were able to extend the mission of Voyager 2 to see Neptune and Uranus.
Obviously since they are powered by RTGs, they have a significant lifespan and the major mission limiting item is propellant to orient towards the Earth for data transmission.
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posted on
09/21/2006 2:56:08 PM PDT
by
burzum
(Despair not! I shall inspire you by charging blindly on!--Minsc, BG2)
To: knightofchaos
"V'ger!"
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posted on
09/21/2006 2:57:03 PM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Well, good luck with all that.)
bttt
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posted on
09/21/2006 2:57:47 PM PDT
by
clyde asbury
(Now with built-in speakerphone)
To: jim macomber
But the flatulent sound it would otherwise make won't be heard in the vacuum, right? Oh I dunno. Seems to me Dems pass flatulence all the time (it passes as "free speech" and you certainly can hear it in the vacuum of Liberal "thought process"....
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posted on
09/21/2006 2:59:19 PM PDT
by
KenHorse
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