All Articles Tagged As: voyager 1

Instrument studies edge of sun's bubble (7/9/2008)

Spacecraft gives data on space beyond sun's influence ...> Full Article

Scientists Study Voyager 2's Plunge Through the Heliosphere (12/15/2007)

Scientists have discovered that our sun's 'atmosphere' is asymmetric, thanks to two champion spacecraft. ...> Full Article

Voyager 2 Proves Solar System Is Squashed (12/13/2007)

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has followed its twin Voyager 1 into the solar system's final frontier, a vast region at the edge of our solar system where the solar wind runs up against the thin gas between the stars. ...> Full Article

Plasma Science Instrument Finds Surprises At Solar System's Edge (12/12/2007)

The Voyager 2 spacecraft's Plasma Science instrument, developed at MIT in the 1970s, has turned up surprising revelations about the boundary zone that marks the edge of the sun's influence in space. ...> Full Article

In Search Of Interstellar Dragon Fire (8/23/2007)

Ancient explorers set sail expecting to encounter dragons on the world's unknown oceans. NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft are searching for dragons of a different sort as they enter the boundary of our solar system â€" cosmic "dragons" that breathe a strange fire of high-speed atomic fragments called cosmic rays. ...> Full Article