Voyager At 90 AU

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Voyager at 90 AU
Voyager Project
October 28, 2003

The Voyager journey of discovery continues. After traveling
through space for more than 26 years, voyager 1 is approaching a
new milestone. On November 5, 2003, the spacecraft will be 90
astronomical units (AU) from the Sun. 90 AU is the equivalent of
about 8.4 billion miles or 13.5 billion kilometers. It is the only
spacecraft to have made measurements in the solar wind from
such a great distance from the source of the dynamic solar
environment. To commemorate this achievement, a public lecture
will be held at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in
Washington, DC on November 5 at 8:00PM. For more details, go
he

http://www.nasm.si.edu/events/eventD...cfm?eventID=90

Recent observations indicate that Voyager 1 is in a region unlike
any encounter in its 26 years of exploration. These observations
and what they may infer about the approach to the termination
shock will be the subject of a NASA Space Science Update (SSU)
on November 5, 2003. The SSU will be carried live on NASA
Select beginning at 1:00 PM EST.

The Voyager mission, now in its 27th year, continues its
quest to push the bounds of space exploration. The twin
Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft opened new vistas in space by greatly
expanding our knowledge of Jupiter and Saturn. Voyager 2 then
extended the planetary adventure when it flew by Uranus and
Neptune, becoming the only spacecraft ever to visit these worlds.

Voyager 1, now the most distant human-made object in the
universe, and Voyager 2, close on its heels, continue their
ground-breaking journey with their current mission to study the
region in space where the Sun's influence ends and the dark
recesses of interstellar space begin.