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A Big Surprise from the Edge of the Solar System
Posted on Jun 09, 2011 03:53:32 PM | John Entwistle | 3 Comments    |
NASA's Voyager probes are truly going where no one has gone before. Gliding silently toward the stars, 9 billion miles from Earth, they are beaming back news from the most distant, unexplored reaches of the solar system.

Mission scientists say the probes have just sent back some very big news indeed.

It's bubbly out there.

According to computer models, the bubbles are large, about 100 million miles wide, so it would take the speedy probes weeks to cross just one of them. Voyager 1 entered the "foam-zone" around 2007, and Voyager 2 followed about a year later. At first researchers didn't understand what the Voyagers were sensing--but now they have a good idea.

Author: Dr. Tony Phillips | Credit: Science@NASA

Read more about this amazing discovery at Science@NASA or watch the video on YouTube.


Tags : NASA Mission Update, NASA Point of Interest, NASA Science Update  

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3 On Jun 10, 2011 07:04:09 AM  Judy Rower  added a comment on your blog post. 

You guys are so totally cool!!!

2 On Jun 10, 2011 07:07:59 AM  Judy Rower  added a comment on your blog post. 

God Bless all the Nasa does and Godspeed to Atlantis!!

1 On Jun 10, 2011 07:06:57 AM  Judy Rower  added a comment on your blog post. 

You guys are so totally cool!! We get to see outer space from our computer. May the Congress give you one trillion dollars to continue NASA's great tradition of space exploration which ultimately gives America the finest innovations know to mankind!! God Bless the Atlantis!! Our last space shuttle. I am very, very sad to see the end of this program!!

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