Voyager 2 Proves Solar System Is Squashed

U.S. Newswire, December, 2007

To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS

Contact: Nancy Neal-Jones or Bill Steigerwald of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, AGU Press Room 1-415-348-4440 or 1-301-286- 0039 / 5017, Nancy.N.Jones@nasa.gov / William.A.Steigerwald@nasa.gov; or Carolina Martinez/Jane Platt of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1-818-354-9382/0880, carolina.martinez@jpl.nasa.gov

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has followed its twin Voyager 1 into the solar system's final frontier, a vast region at the edge of our solar system where the solar wind runs up against the thin gas between the stars.

However, Voyager 2 took a different path, entering this region, called the heliosheath, on August 30, 2007. Because Voyager 2 crossed the heliosheath boundary,...

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