Day: January 19, 2011

Voyager 1 at edge of solar system

Voyager 1 at edge of solar system

Stamatios M. Krimigis of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is pictured with the Voyager spacecraft’s backup flight unit which was never used. (Jed Kirschbaum, Baltimore Sun/January 17, 2011) So cool. Thanks to Michael Doyle for posting this on Facebook. Last June, Krimigis’ team noticed that solar particles had stopped striking from behind, and […]