{"id":121,"date":"2003-11-11T00:10:58","date_gmt":"2003-11-11T00:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=121"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:33:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:33:42","slug":"where-no-machine-has-gone-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"where no machine has gone before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Voyager 1 space probe, launched in 1977, is  now more than 8 billion miles from Earth, but whether it has actually  left the outer limits of the solar system is still a matter of debate. In the Nov. 6 <em>Nature,<\/em> researchers led by Stamatios Krimigis of Johns  Hopkins University report that the craft already has passed that  historic milestone, entering the boundary marking the edge of the sun&#8217;s  influence, known as the termination shock.\u00a0 The termination shock arises from supersonic particles streaming from  the sun (the solar wind) violently intersecting with particles from deep  space. Krimigis and his team offer a drop in solar wind speed, among  other data, as proof that Voyager journeyed through that barrier. <!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the same issue, however, researchers led by Frank McDonald of the  University of Maryland disagree, saying that the probe is only  approaching the barrier and the amount of data seen is only a prelude to  the true termination shock that lies just ahead. An accompanying  commentary acknowledged that &#8220;neither explanation is certain.&#8221;  Wherever  it actually is, Voyager is farther out than any object yet made by  humans.<\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 11\/11\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Voyager 1 space probe, launched in 1977, is now more than 8 billion miles from Earth, but whether it has actually left the outer limits of the solar system is still a matter of debate. In the Nov. 6 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=121\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1118,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/1118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}