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Voyager 2 Proves Solar System is squashed
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12-10-2007 8:43 PM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c96526ac-d442-4ba9-85cd-cc9add9240aa/2597216A-360B-413C-8C1A-7442E2941E62/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/" href="http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/" style="font-size: 11px;">voyager.jpl.nasa.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/"><P align="left"><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has followed its twin Voyager 1 into the solar system's final frontier, a vast region at the edge of our solar system where the solar wind runs up against the thin gas between the stars.</FONT> </P><P><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <A href="http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/images/v2_ts_image.jpg"><IMG width="250" hspace="4" height="140" border="0" align="right" src="http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/images/v2_ts_image_s.jpg" /></A>However, Voyager 2 took a different path, entering this region, called the heliosheath, on August 30, 2007. Because Voyager 2 crossed the heliosheath boundary, called the solar wind termination shock, about 10 billion miles away from Voyager 1 and almost a billion miles closer to the sun, it confirmed that our solar system is " squashed" or " dented"- that the bubble carved into interstellar space by the solar wind is not perfectly round. Where Voyager 2 made its crossing, the bubble is pushed in closer to the sun by the local interstellar magnetic field.</FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/"><TABLE width="124" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><TBODY><TR><TD valign="top" colspan="3"><IMG width="124" height="20" alt="Golden Record" src="http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/images/rtcol_goldenrecvv.gif" /></TD></TR><TR valign="top"><TD background="images/rtcol_bg.gif" colspan="3"> <DIV align="center"><A href="http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/goldenrec.html"> <IMG width="92" height="82" border="0" alt="Golden Record" src="http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/images/rtcol_imagesrecord.gif" /> </A></DIV></TD></TR><TR valign="top"><TD background="images/rtcol_bg.gif"> </TD><TD background="images/rtcol_bg.gif" class="righttext"><DIV align="center"><A href="http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/goldenrec.html"><FONT color="#ffffff">Earth's Greeting to the universe</FONT></A></DIV></TD><TD background="images/rtcol_bg.gif"> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/"><TABLE width="124" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><TBODY><TR><TD valign="top" colspan="3"><IMG width="124" height="20" alt="Featured Video" src="http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/images/rtcol_video.gif" /></TD></TR><TR valign="top"><TD background="images/rtcol_bg.gif" colspan="3"> <DIV align="center"><A href="http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/050523-voyager.qtl"><IMG width="100" height="84" border="0" alt="The Grand Tour" src="http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/images/Heliosheath.jpg" /></A></DIV></TD></TR><TR valign="top"><TD width="4" background="images/rtcol_bg.gif"> </TD><TD width="116" background="images/rtcol_bg.gif" class="righttext"><DIV align="center"><A href="http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/v_inter_cable.mov"><FONT color="#ffffff">Voyager Enters the Heliosheath (cc)</FONT></A></DIV></TD><TD width="4" background="images/rtcol_bg.gif"> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/">"Voyager 2 continues its journey of discovery, crossing the termination shock multiple times</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/">the giant heliospheric bubble surrounding the Sun</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2597216A-360B-413C-8C1A-7442E2941E62/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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