Voyager 1 Has Entered 'Cosmic Purgatory,' Where No Probe Has Gone Before

This is very cool! I bet the engineers who made V'ger are extremely proud, as they should be. Huzzahh!

will it still be able to send pictures using battery power after the fuel runs out?

-Knock knock
-Who's there?
-The Doctor.
-Doctor Who?
-Yes

Can't wait!

WONDERFUL! FANTASTIC! AWESOME!

Similar to the Mars Landers and its batteries lasting much longer than designed, with luck the Voyagers will contnue beyond their original designs. Let's keep our fingers, eyes and toes crossed!

I APPLAUDED THE VOYAGER ENGINEERS AND ALL WHO SUPPORT IT!
YEA!!!!!!!!

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Science sees no further than what it can sense.
Religion sees beyond the senses.

Poor lonely little guy. All by him self.

so they were able to make this how many years ago....and we are making what now?

They made the probe 35 years ago. We are making probes and rovers now.

I'm very interested to see what the cosmic radiation will be outside of the protective heliosphere.

"....Voyager 1 will likely spend months to perhaps more than a year traversing the stagnation zone before emerging into interstellar space...."

Can make me wonder what effects are going on during this transit time to make such a large variable.

Is it like a thick fog Voyager is pushing through or is the distance itself a variable? I wonder what other mysterious things may show up. I hope Voyager gives us Earthlings good usable information.

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Science sees no further than what it can sense.
Religion sees beyond the senses.

Vger will return in search of it's creator.

New Horizons will be the next probe to leave the solar system around 2029 after observing Pluto, Charon, Hydra, and Nix. It will eventually pass up the Voyagers as the Voyagers passed up the Pioneers, and if the Voyagers are any testament to the longevity of the probes we make (those and the Spirit & Opportunity Rovers on Mars) New Horizon's possibly might survive long enough to give a a closer look into interstellar space. Future deep space solar system missions with solar escape trajectory probes will continue to push the limits of longevity and speed allowing us to eventually receive readings of foreign stellar space.

That or we can just hop on a lazer and go see it for ourselves.

So Voyager 1 is going to "Cosmic Purgatory"?

Lucky Devil.

this gives you a good example of how large our universe really is. its just barely leaving our "tiny" solar system. i guess it would be leaving our galaxy in what? 100 years?

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@ JediMindset

"12/08/11 at 12:38 am
this gives you a good example of how large our universe really is. its just barely leaving our "tiny" solar system. i guess it would be leaving our galaxy in what? 100 years?"

To put it into perspective, 11 billion miles = 16.5 LightHOURS. So it's traveled a grand total of 0.00187 Lightyears as of yet.

The solarsystem is veeery roughly 23000 lightyears from the edge of the milkyway.

At 11 miles per second it will take more than 389.5 million years to leave the galaxy!!!!!!!

Yup, the galaxy is a big place, and still but a pinprick in the universe.

Also, think it'll run out of fuel by then.

@jedimindset there's no way voyager can leave our galaxy in 100 years it already takes the speed of light 100,000 years to go from one end to the other and voyager isn't even goin at a fraction the speed of light so i don't know, do the math my friend :) voyager = 11 miles per second LIGHTSPEED = 186,287 miles per second!!!!

GoDDAAMMN 186,287 miles per sec shhhhhitt

@Delkomatic...maybe you should spend more time reading and less time b$tching than you might realize how many missions are currently underway and also in the planning stages-@JediMindset...earth to JediMindset, earth to JediMindset, come in please, if you can copy this transmission than hear this, at Voyager 1's current velocity it would take it approximately 1.9 triilion years to cross the entire Milky Way Galaxy, granted it doesn't have to cross the entire galaxy to exit said galaxy but this does illustrate the immense distances that preclude any manned interstellar travel without some breakthrough in bending space-time to create a short cut since travelling faster than the speed of light or even close to the speed of light is not possible (the neutrino thing is probably some crap we may never understand or take advantage of, if it is even true), damn, i probably just waisted my time seeing how you are just a troll or so incredibly stupid you wouldn't understand what stupid is, damn, should of had my coffee before i wrote this, my appologies, cheers

drchuck1,
Consider a troll a black hole and once you are sucked in you become a troll too.

Chuck, I like you positive comments. I do not like it when you venture to the dark side. Be nice sir and have a great holiday!

@Oeonone,

thanks for doing all that math for me lol. im pretty sure it doesn't matter if it runs out of fuel. it will keep moving forward forever due to Kinetic energy.

@solarflare
186,287 miles per second is very fast. the voyager isnt even going over mach 1(over sound barrier), 400 meters per second(761.2 mph per hour). funny thing is that space is a vacuum so sound cannot even travel in space lol. since we live near the edge of the galaxy it should be going the opposite way from the center, right?

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@GeeWillikers...i realize i become a troll when spanking a troll, but they do need it, voyager 1's speed is 38000 mph, much faster than mach one so really JediMindset or george get your facts straight or are you dumb or just trolling again?

@drchuck1,

lol its funny when someone calls you a troll simply because your point of view. but you are right i made a mistake. its going way faster than mach 1. i admit that.

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JediMindset,
Arg, I was trying to gently suggest to not be sucked down into the dark side. But since it is almost Christmas, I suppose we could all sing " I wish you a Merry Christmas, Troll'a la la la la la "; just joking. So, I retract all troll innuendos.

I really hope Voyager 1 last much longer than it's expected drop dead date of 2020. Maybe as it breaks through barrier, it may even get a kick in speed; now that would be cool! But on a dark note, What happens if it communications can no longer make it back to earth, once it passes the bubble?

Once the Voyager 1 gets past the bubble and send it communication signal back to earth, could that signal be reflected by the bubble of comsic radionation\noise? Hence, stop us earthlings from recieving it's communication!

i believe nasa said it will still send signals back to earth but it is quickly running out of power, as for the holidays season, i am not a big fan but wish the best for you all, cheers