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NASA probe to examine boundary between solar system and intergalactic space

Cape Canaveral :: FL :: USA | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

So far, only the Voyager probes have crossed into the boundary zone, some eight to nine billion miles from Earth, with surprising results...It works by detecting particles that were stripped of electric charges in the outer regions of the heliosphere,...

Tags: solar system, space, solar wind, rocket

Solar wind global pressure at the lowest!

Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

European Space Agency mission, shows the sun has reduced its output of solar wind to the lowest levels since accurate readings became available which, in turn, could reduce the natural shielding that envelops the solar system. "The sun's million mile-per-hour...

Tags: solar wind, lowest level, cosmic radiation, scientist say, space age

Space Probes Find Dent in Solar System

Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

JPL An artist's rendering of Voyager 2 in the outer limits of the heliosphere, the area of space affected by the Sun's solar wind. Voyager 2's journey toward interstellar space has revealed surprising insights into the energy and magnetic forces at the...

Tags: voyager 2, space, Voyager, solar wind

'Spider webs' would help propel future space probes

Helsinki :: Finland | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

London, April 25 : A team of scientists in Finland has woven a new type of spider web-like solar sail, with positively charged wires, that might be able to repel positive ions in the solar wind and thus propel itself through space. A ccording to a report...

Tags: spider webs, solar wind

Mars and Venus are surprisingly similar

Vienna :: Austria | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

T he particles are being accelerated away by interactions with the solar wind, a constant stream of electrically charged particles released by the Sun. The solar wind in earth does not directly interact with the atmosphere...Neither Mars nor Venus

Tags: solar wind, atmosphere, solar, Venus

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