The second door
The second door
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Signs that Voyager 2 is approaching interstellar space.
A few months before the Voyager 1 will cross the final border, where the direct influence of the Sun, the alarms began to sound in the form of an increase in the levels of high energy cosmic rays (fast particles arriving from interstellar space). It was the expected signal that indicated that perhaps it was rapidly approaching the end of the heliosphere, and so it was finally. As it was later discovered by analyzing the data of the still active instruments, this probe had become the first human object to literally reach the realm of the stars.
Behind her, although with a different trajectory, the Voyager 2 She is beginning to experience the same signs that she once told her sister that the big moment was coming. and is that since the beginning of August your instrument Cosmic Ray Subsystem is detecting a 5% increase in the impact signals of these particles beyond the Sun, a small but revealing percentage, since it is similar to what its equivalent of the Voyager 1 detected months before the crossing. Perhaps a sign of what is to come.
Evidently, nothing is certain when we speak of a region that has hardly been explored. The Voyager 2 it is in a different location within the outer region, and the possible differences in these locations mean that the chronological order of events could be different. The fact that you are approaching this final zone 6 years after the Voyager 1 It is also relevant, since the heliopause moves in and out during the 11-year activity cycle of the Sun. "We are seeing a change in the environment around the probe, there is no doubt about it"Explains Ed Stone, project scientist."We will learn a lot in the coming months, but I still do not know when we will reach the heliopause. We're not there yet, that's something I can say with confidence"
We must be vigilant. Nothing is certain, but perhaps in a few months a new envoy of Humanity will reach the star kingdom, opening a new door to the unknown, one by which perhaps, within a long, long time, the future human species will face its destiny, becoming in a species no longer of a single world, no longer of a single Sun.
The positions of Voyager 1 and 2 in
relationship with the heliosphere, a protective bubble created by the Sun that
it extends beyond the orbit of Pluto. The
Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause, the edge of the heliosphere, in 2012. The
Voyager 2 is still in the outermost part
of the latter, but perhaps it is already approaching the final frontier.
NASA Voyager 2 Could Be Nearing Interstellar Space
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