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Title: Confused about Voyager 1's 'exit' from the solar system?
Category: Science
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2013-09-13 21:29:46
Canadian

[Jabberwalker]

Since, the only way that we will know exactly what the boundry to our solar system looks like is to exit the solar system, it really is no mystery why the definition of "edge" is still being defined.

You were expecting a gigantic sign that reads: "Mind the Step" perhaps?

[xerxes]

Would be nice....

From what I've read, technically, since Voyager hasn't passed the Oort Cloud yet, it's still in the Solar System. Still, for a probe launched 1977 to have gone so far and still be operational is beyond impressive.

[Jabberwalker]

Yes, these machines were obviously very well designed and made.

[DrCaleb]

xerxes xerxes:

Would be nice....

From what I've read, technically, since Voyager hasn't passed the Oort Cloud yet, it's still in the Solar System. Still, for a probe launched 1977 to have gone so far and still be operational is beyond impressive.

It's passed the heliopause, or the limits of the Sun's influence.

The Oort cloud extends more than a light year from the Sun, and Voyager won't make it there for thousands of years. And they certainly are tough probes!