Researchers at the American space agency say that the latest investigation of the galactic wind has revealed a chemical composition that appears to be alien. In other words, these winds are not made of the same particles as the solar system.
The discovery was made using the NASA Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX... |
1 February 2012
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Mission controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, want the Voyager 1 spacecraft to continue collecting and transmitting data until at least 2025. In order for the probe to do that, it needs to manage its dwindling power supplies extremely well.
The spacecraft has already been... |
19 January 2012
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The NASA Voyager 1 space probe is currently making its way through a cosmic purgatory of sorts, officials in charge of the mission say. The spacecraft is currently at the edge of the solar system, where it's plowing its way through extremely-hostile conditions.
The purpose of the mission is to study interstella... |
6 December 2011
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Some time ago, the IBEX spacecraft surveying the heliosphere discovered what could best be described as a “ribbon” of energy and particles permeating this protective sheet. Now, experts with the mission finally get some insight into the nature of this ribbon.
The NASA Interstellar Boundary Explorer (I... |
2 April 2011
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Officials at NASA announce that Suzanne Dodd is the new manager of the Voyager mission, whose two spacecrafts are currently making their way to the edge of our solar system.The expert is based at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California. When she first started working for the lab, back in 198... |
30 October 2010
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Using a series of datasets from several spacecrafts and observatories, experts have determined that the amount of cosmic rays the Earth was subjected to in 2009 was the largest ever recorded. Experts who conducted the measurements said that in no other period since the beginning of the Space Age have so many radiatio... |
20 October 2010
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According to the latest data sent back by a NASA spacecraft, it would appear that the amount of activity going on at the edge of our solar system is a lot higher than anyone first calculated. Using data from the American space agency's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft, the researchers were a... |
1 October 2010
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In addition to supplying space agencies with invaluable data on the moons of Saturn and the gas giant itself, the Cassini spacecraft is also helping in our quest to learn more about our solar system. As we move through the local Milky Way galaxy, the space probe is taking non-stop measurements as to the nature of our... |
20 November 2009
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Data from satellites charged with producing a map of our solar system and its limits have revealed that our “bubble” ends with a very narrow ribbon of densely packed neutral atoms, rather than with an area of evenly distributed ones. The fringes of the solar system can only be imagined, astronomers say, i... |
16 October 2009
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Two days ago, the small probe that represents the accomplishment of the efforts of Southwest Research Institute experts, was successfully launched into space on a Pegasus rocket carried by an L-1011 jet plane at high altitude above the Pacific. The probe was carried by the Pegasus for about 130 miles onto its orbit ... |
21 October 2008
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The IBEX probe will be launched on Sunday with the declared aim of reaching past the Earth's magnetic field in order to examine the interactions that take place at the boundaries of the heliosphere.Despite having protruded far more distant corners of the universe, we still have little knowledge of the phenomena ... |
14 October 2008
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Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are two of the most important spacecrafts in the history of space and solar system exploration, and currently the only two man-made objects to go beyond the limits of the solar system. Voyager 1 crossed the termination shock, the area of space where solar wind and interstellar radiation collid... |
3 July 2008
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Viewed as one of the most productive explorers ever launched by mankind, Voyager 2 was the probe that set, in 1989, the point where all the planets in the solar system had been visited at least once by a spacecraft. On its path across the solar system, the spacecraft Voyager 2 is now at a distance of 83.5 astronomica... |
28 November 2007
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