Yes Rodger, all those were exciting. I remember too the thrill of early automated moon landings -- and ones that weren't landings but deliberate crashes in which the probe took as many images as possible as it bore in closer and closer until that final close-up partial frame. -- Joe ------------------------------ On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 7:26 AM MST Rodger C. Fry wrote:
Michael,
It is interesting to read your impression of the exciting astronomical news coming out today and how you wish they had such great news when you were growing up in grade school. It is great news but I see a generation gap is present.
When I was in grade-school, I remember Sputnik being sent into space and spending several evening trying to see it and eventually being successful. I remember the announcement of Yuri Gagarin went into space which shocked the U S citizens. I clearly remember when Alan Shepard was sent on his sub orbital ride and when John Glenn took his 3-orbit flight. When Apollo 11 flight took its historic flight and landing on the moon, I was on a college field trip at Fossil Butte Wyoming, huddled around our professor's Suburban listening to the final decent of the Eagle Lander. It doesn't get more exciting than that.
I was lucky to grow up during the birth of the space age. I was also lucky to be a true geek and have the insight as to the significance of each step that was taken.
Exciting times have definitely arrived as far as space exploration is concerned. It will be incredibly interesting to see what is to come in the next ten to twenty years.
Thanks Rodger C. Fry
-----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Michael Wells Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 8:14 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Voyager 1 new discovery.
Yeah, I noticed that part. Definitely behaving in an interesting way, that's for sure. As much as I wouldn't want to be a grade school student today, the 70's-80's had almost nothing exciting compared to now. Sure, we started the shuttle program, and things like Voyager went up. I also remember when they discovered rings around Uranus(Due to the obvious joke), but that was pretty much it. Kids nowdays have something new hitting the classroom pretty much every week now, between the amazing stellar pictures from our array of telescopes, other probes, such as Cassini, and the stuff from the Mars rovers. Awesome stuff.
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Daniel Holmes <danielh@holmesonics.com>wrote:
What I got from the article is that they didn't expect to see the rise of interstellar particles while also seeing the Sun's magnetic field--the field lines of interstellar space lining up with the Sun's field lines. A region where both sets of particles mingled I think was expected, but this region allows the particles to move between regions much easier.
Near the bottom of the article:
"The researchers suspect they've reached a region of the solar-interstellar boundary that nobody had predicted. In this area, the magnetic field lines of the Sun link up with those of the interstellar field. Scientists are calling this linkage a "highway" for particles to travel along. It lets solar wind particles escape more readily, causing the drop in their intensity. And it opens the door for low-energy cosmic rays to slip in to our Solar System, which is why Voyager 1 is seeing so may of them."
Dan
On Dec 3, 2012, at 7:59 PM, Michael Wells <eyeonyouproductions@gmail.com> wrote:
Seems like what I would have expected, not a sudden shift from our Sun's particles to those from "outside", but a neutral zone where they both seem to equally counteract each other. In perspective to stellar distances, this still could be considered a super thin line, 122 A.U. is nothing n the grand scheme of things, and that's Voyager I's total trip so far, not just the part where they thought the soloar system would end and the universe proper would begin.
Then again, I'm no scientist, so what would I know?
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Daniel Holmes <danielh@holmesonics.com wrote:
It discovered a previously unknown edge of the solar system boundary. Pretty cool stuff.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/12/voyager-1-spots-new-region-at-t he-edge-of-the-solar-system/
Dan
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