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Take A Tour of the Solar System Thanks to the Voyager Probes

The Voyager program, which launched two unmanned scientific probes (Voyager 1 and Voyager 2) has uncovered some of the most...

The Voyager program, which launched two unmanned scientific probes (Voyager 1 and Voyager 2) has uncovered some of the most startling, ground breaking images of our solar system. Both probes were launched in 1977 solely to study Jupiter and Saturn, but fortuitous solar conditions and damn good engineering keep them, as of June 2011, on course to exit the solar system and move on to, well, who knows?

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New data from Voyager’s low-energy charged particle instrument indicates that solar winds have calmed down outlining a thick, previously unpredicted “transition zone” at the edge of the solar system.

“There is one time we are going to cross that frontier, and this is the first sign it is upon us,” said Tom Krimigis, principal investigator for Voyager’s low-energy charged particle instrument and Cassini’s magnetospheric imaging instrument.

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