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Voyager 2 crosses the termination shock at about 84 AU

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Voyager 2 met the shock roughly ten astronomical units closer to the Sun than Voyager 1 had, and crossed it more than once as the shock itself moved in and out with solar activity. The distance asymmetry between the two crossings was among the first direct evidence that the heliosphere is not spherical. Because Voyager 2's plasma science instrument still worked, this crossing produced the first direct plasma measurements of a termination shock.

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  1. Story
  2. Voyager 2 met the shock roughly ten astronomical units closer to the Sun than Voyager 1 had, and crossed it more than once as the shock itself moved in and out with solar activity. The distance asymmetry between the two crossings was among the first direct evidence that the heliosphere is not spherical. Because Voyager 2's plasma science instrument still worked, this crossing produced the first direct plasma measurements of a termination shock.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Voyager 2
  5. Heliosphere
  6. Termination shock
  7. Voyager 2 crosses the termination shock at about 84 AU
  8. Connections
  9. Termination shock
  10. Voyager 2
  11. Heliosphere
  12. Solar wind
  13. Heliosphere
  14. Voyager 1 crosses the termination shock at about 94 AU
  15. Voyager 2 crosses the termination shock at about 84 AU
  16. Voyager 1
  17. The Grand Tour alignment
  18. Multi-Hundred-Watt radioisotope thermoelectric generator
  19. DSS-43, Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex
  20. Gravity assist
  21. Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  22. Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral
  23. Jupiter
  24. Neptune
  25. Saturn
  26. Uranus
  27. Cosmic Ray Subsystem (CRS)
  28. Titan IIIE-Centaur
  29. Edward C. Stone
  30. The Voyager Golden Record
  31. The full Grand Tour is cancelled and rebuilt as a two-spacecraft mission
  32. Voyager 2 launches
  33. Voyager 2 closest approach to Jupiter
  34. Voyager 2 passes Saturn and continues towards Uranus
  35. Voyager 2 reaches Uranus — the only close encounter ever made
  36. Voyager 2 passes Neptune and Triton, ending the planetary programme
  37. Voyager 2 crosses the termination shock at about 84 AU
  38. Voyager 2 crosses the heliopause at 119 AU
  39. Voyager 2's low-energy charged particle instrument is switched off
  40. The "Big Bang" power manoeuvre on Voyager 2
  41. Very local interstellar medium
  42. Solar wind
  43. Termination shock
  44. Heliopause
  45. Voyager 2 crosses the termination shock at about 84 AU
  46. Evidence
  47. Voyager 2 crossed the termination shock on 30 August 2007 at about 84 AU, roughly ten AU closer to the Sun than Voyager 1's crossing, indicating an asymmetric heliosphere; the shock was crossed more than once as it moved with solar activity. V55 verification basis: NOT CHECKED IN THIS RUN — search budget exhausted, publisher domain blocked. Date, distance and citation all require confirmation.
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