Ed Stone, Voyager project scientist at the California Institute of Technology in the city of Pasadena, said that the Voyager is in a region of stagnation in the last layer of the bubble that surrounds our solar system and will not have to wait long to know what it is really the space between the stars.
Voyager 1 is in the process of being the first manmade object to leave the solar system, NASA hopes even take some months or even years to fully enter into interstellar space. The Voyager 2, which is currently at 14.500 million miles from the sun will follow later.
Voyager 1 is traveling at only 17 km per second and sends data back to Earth from a distance of 17.500 million miles.
The information obtained by the Voyager last year in this area reveals that the edge of the Solar System the wind charged particles from the sun is calm, while the higher energy particles seem to seep into interstellar space.
The primary mission of the Voyagers was the exploration of outer parts of our solar system, particularly the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn. The ships have been sent pictures of the rings of Saturn, Saturn rolo point and sulfur volcanoes in Europe. ADS HERE
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