On 22/04/2024 22:40, James Nicoll wrote:
The Voyager 1 mission team has got the ailing space probe
to resume sending coherent data.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth
Very cool!
I wondered what scientific data Voyager 1 was still even sending this
far out. Its wikipedia page has a list of all the instruments on it
including those that are still active so that's cool; it seems to be
sending useful info on cosmic rays and magnetic fields in particular.
This seems like a fun review paper on the subject:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-022-00899-y
"Observations of the Outer Heliosphere, Heliosheath, and Interstellar
Medium (2022)"
which talks a lot about where different probes went and how the data
from them help model the interactions of the solar wind and the
interstellar medium.
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