NASA probe enters unexplored territory at solar system's edge

msm ^ | 12.05.2011 | Denise Chow

[wolfcreek]

After more than 30 years of traveling through the cosmos, a far-flung NASA spacecraft has entered an uncharted region between our solar system and interstellar space, scientists announced Monday.

[wolfcreek]

V---ger

[wolfcreek]

PING!

[Doc Savage]

Mr. Sulu, Warp 1, take us out.....................Scotty, we need more power! Mr. Spock, urinalysis? Albumin 2% Captain!

[citizen]

Gee, a one-line excerpt. I think several papagraphs are acceptable. I don't go to MSDNC. I'll find it elsewhere.

But thanks, anyway. I needed to update my tag line. :)

[struggle]

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[wolfcreek]

There’s a video too. Would you like me to guide you through it? ;>)

[Oceander]

Wow. That’s a pretty good investment to still be running for that long, both in miles and in years.

[LibLieSlayer]

“Mr. Chekov... WE NEED MORE COWBELL!”

[Happy Rain]

A Klingon Bird of Prey will use this one for target practice too.

[mkjessup]

It’s a good day to die, if your name is Wesley Crusher.

In fact ANY day is a good day to die if your name is Wesley Crusher. LOL

[Captain Rhino]

IIRC, light covers this same distance in about 6 hours.

[cuban leaf]

And what is going to happen to it when it reaches the interior limit of our dyson sphere?

Hmmmmmm?

[GreenHornet]

it has crossed into new territory that scientists are calling the "stagnation region."

There have been a number of Saturday nights when I've entered that same territory.

[KoRn]

/mark

[traderrob6]

I saw a picture a few months ago of the sun looking back toward the interior solar system from just around the distance of Pluto. If anyone has it please post, very cool.

[rightwingextremist1776]

Gonna pop it like a big balloon....

[Mmogamer]

Voyager 2 is 13 light hours from Earth, Voyager 1 is is about the same.

[mdmathis6]

“In fact ANY day is a good day to die if your name is Wesley Crusher”

Yes and with the initials of WC, anyone in great Britain or Northern Europe might take a dump on you...(many public bathrooms in Europe have the initials WC on the door; stands
for water closet!

[Erik Latranyi]

I am waiting for the day that Voyager gets passed by one of our faster probes.

[Redleg Duke]

Remeber, this was a product of the old NASA...the NASA that was the “can-do space agency”, not the “can’t-do bureaucracy”!