Voyager Spacecraft Approaching Solar Systems's Final Frontier
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman - Continuing Education |
| Discipline(s): |
Aerospace Engineering Information Technology |
| Special Topic(s): |
History of Technology |
| Learning Resource Type: | Reference - Visuals |
| Media Type: | WWW |
| Author(s): |
Nancy Neal
Organization: NASA Headquarters |
| Description: | NASA's website of November 5, 2003 on Voyager's 1 approach to the frontier of our solar system. The website has video clips and images. The caption reads: "NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is about to make history again as the first spacecraft to enter the solar system's final frontier, a vast expanse where wind from the Sun blows hot against thin gas between the stars: interstellar space. However, before it reaches this region, Voyager 1 must pass through the termination shock, a violent zone that is the source of beams of high-energy particles (Image 1). Voyager's journey through this turbulent zone will give scientists their first direct measurements of our solar system's unexplored final frontier, called the heliosheath, and scientists are debating if this passage has already begun. Two papers about this research are being published in Nature on November 5, 2003. The first paper, by Dr. Stamatios M. Krimigis of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md., and his team, gives evidence supporting the claim that Voyager 1 passed beyond the termination shock. The second paper, by Dr. Frank B. McDonald of the University of Maryland, College Park, and his team, gives evidence against this claim. A third paper, published October 30, 2003 in Geophysical Research Letters by Dr. Leonard F. Burlaga of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., and collaborators, gives evidence that Voyager 1 did not pass beyond the termination shock. (Refer to Image 2a for an illustration of the termination shock and heliosheath)." |
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| Use of Resource: | History of technology and exciting images and videos. |
| Difficulty: | Medium |
| Interactivity Level: | Medium |
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| Publication Date: | November 2005 |
| Platform/Format: | WWW |
| Cost: | Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.nasa... |
| Metadata: | IEEE LOM Record |
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