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Voyager 1 Sends Messages from the Edge

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish dept.

dalmozian writes "NASA's Latest News about the Voyager 1 is being run on Sci-Tech. The Voyager has passed into the border region at the edge of the solar system and now is sending back information about this never-before-explored area, say scientists at the University of Maryland. From the article: 'Voyager 1 and its twin spacecraft Voyager 2 are now part of a NASA Interstellar Mission to explore the outermost edge of the sun's domain and beyond. Both Voyagers are capable of returning scientific data from a full range of instruments, with adequate electrical power and attitude control propellant to keep operating until 2020.'" The proof of crossing the termination shock was covered earlier this year but now we can see the actual data.

3 of 287 comments (clear)

  1. Who cares.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    About some hunk of junk float aimlessly in outer space. Can't we talk about something more down to eart. Come on!

  2. Mayan Pyramids by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The Mayans are another issue altogether, since they knew the wheel only as a child's toy or in certain tools. How they moved those blocks from quarries to the construction sites (Tula, Uxmal, Chichen-Itza, etc) is a little harder to figure out.

    Plenty of slave power?
  3. Re:FOS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yet another clueless "Open Source it and all will be better" post modded +1. Uhhh... okay, from a practical point of view, say you do "Open Source" the Voyager probes assuming that "Open Source" means that the specifications for talking to the probe get published. Exactly who is going to foot the bill to contact the Voyagers? Does "Open Source" have a Deep Space Network they can use? No, didn't think so.