Achieving Voyager Outer Limits of the Solar System

Achieving Voyager Solar System Outer Limits | New
Spacecraft Voyager 1, launched in 1977 to explore the planets that exist beyond the asteroid belt, like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, has now passed a new ar on its way out of the Solar System.


It is revled from two changes in environmental conditions are very different space and interconnected, which is detected by the vehicle at a loion that is more than 18 billion miles from rth on August 25, 2012.

Voyager 1 satellite captures a drastic change in the levels of radiation, where the radiation comes from the environment in the solar system and the other came from interstellar space.

Bill Webber, astronomer at New Mexico State University in Mexico, said that the heliosphere, Voyager 1 detects particles that exist in the solar system decrsed less than 1 percent of the previously detected. While interstellar space radiation incrsed almost two-fold.

However, resrchers have stated that Voyager 1 was alrdy in interstellar space, a space in space are no longer influenced by the effects of the sun.

Edward Stone, a resrcher involved in the Voyager project, said, still needed additional evidence indiing Voyager has left the solar system.

"Changes in the magnetic field direction is an important indior to indie that the last Voyager 1 has rched interstellar space. Until now it has not been observed change in direction, "he explained.

Resrchers suspect that Voyager 1 is now likely to be in the border ar between the heliosphere and interstellar space that has never been known before.

"This vehicle is outside the heliosphere," said Webber, who told Reuters on Wednesday (20/03/2013). "Everything that we msure is different and interesting," he added.

In December, Voyager has rched an ar called the magnetic highway, where the magnetic field from the Sun's magnetic field is connected with another of interstellar space.

"We believe that this is the last step of our journey toward interstellar space. This is expected in a few months or a few yrs into the future, "said Stone.