MIT instrument finds surprises at solar system's edge

jowey · 12-11-2007, 06:14 PM

http://www.hypography.com/scienceart...tem's-edge

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The Voyager 2 spacecraft's Plasma Science instrument, developed at MIT in the 1970s, has turned up surprising revelations about the boundary zone that marks the edge of the sun's influence in space.

The unexpected findings emerged in the last few weeks as the spacecraft traversed the termination shockwave formed when the flow of particles constantly streaming out from the sun--the solar wind--slams into the surrounding thin gas that fills the space between stars.

The first surprise is that there is an unexpectedly strong magnetic field in that surrounding interstellar region, generated by currents in that incredibly tenuous gas. This magnetic field is squashing the bubble of outflowing gas from the sun, distorting it from the uniform spherical shape space physicists had expected to find.

A second surprise also emerged from Voyager 2's passage through the solar system's outer edge: Just outside that boundary the temperature, although hotter than inside, was ten times cooler than expected. Theorists had to scramble to come up with an explanation for the unanticipated chilling effect.

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2...htm?list762767
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast04oct_1.htm

jowey · 12-16-2007, 04:15 PM

All this radiation, magnetic fields in space and we cannot collect or use the fields to further our exploration.......

I assume that Dr. Winglee had a reason to change his strategy http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast04oct_1.htm to this here http://www.hypography.com/article.cfm?id=34301 requiring a beam.

DRS112 · 12-16-2007, 05:13 PM

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Theorists had to scramble to come up with an explanation for the unanticipated chilling effect.

ahhh shit...they don't know, so that must be proof of god.

jowey · 12-17-2007, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by DRS112

ahhh shit...they don't know, so that must be proof of god.

God put a fence around us.....

The_Heretic · 12-17-2007, 07:06 PM

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Originally Posted by jowey

God put a fence around us.....

No, I'm tellin'ya, it's the aliens! We're under quarantine, the whole solar system! If you look up Homo sapiens in the universal dictionary we're catalogued under diseases, man!!

jowey · 12-18-2007, 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by The_Heretic

No, I'm tellin'ya, it's the aliens! We're under quarantine, the whole solar system! If you look up Homo sapiens in the universal dictionary we're catalogued under diseases, man!!

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jowey Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Virginia Posts: 946 Blog Entries: 21 Thanks: 13 Thanked 13 Times in 10 Posts	All this radiation, magnetic fields in space and we cannot collect or use the fields to further our exploration....... I assume that Dr. Winglee had a reason to change his strategy http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast04oct_1.htm to this here http://www.hypography.com/article.cfm?id=34301 requiring a beam. __________________ O homines ad servitutem paratos...Emperor Tiberius A long standing member of the "Moronic Order of Singularity"
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