Voyager Captures Sounds of Interstellar Space (1 minute YouTube recording)

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[LibWhacker]

Click here to hear it.

[Nachum]

Wow.

[DemforBush]

Mother’s deciphered part of it...it doesn’t look like an S.O.S...it looks like a warning...

(also, wow!)

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping of interest*

[no-to-illegals]

Exceptional .... Now all we have to worry about is V’ger turning around and coming back. Just kidding. Should have left it as EXCEPTIONAL!!!

[no-to-illegals]

I do have a question I am going to have to research ... Since there is no medium for the sound to travel on (supposedly) in the vacuum of space, yet this is sound moving through the vacuum of space, how is that possible with no known medium on which the sound could travel?

[chasio649]

later

[Lancey Howard]

That is cool!
Interestingly, Voyager 2, which was launched a couple weeks before Voyager 1, hasn’t reached interstellar space yet. Both spacecraft are still working, and both were launched in 1977, with 1977 technology. Boggles the mind.

[Impy]

I thought there was no sound in space.

[Lancey Howard]

...this is sound moving through the vacuum of space, how is that possible with no known medium on which the sound could travel?

Read the comments below the YouTube. It is explained pretty well.

FRegards,
LH

[Lancey Howard]

I thought there was no sound in space.

Read the comments below the YouTube. It is explained pretty well.

FRegards,
LH

[Impy]

Thanks.

[no-to-illegals]

Thanks ... didn’t take the time. When an answer is needed a FReeper is always jolly on the spot.

[Southack]

Pioneer 10 was launched in 1972 and beat both Voyagers out of the Solar System. P10 exited circa 2003.

[Bobalu]

If I remember correctly they have an 1802 processor serving as the main computer. It was the silicon-on-saphire version as it was very rugged.

The 1802 was the CPU of one of the earliest low-cost computer kits, the Cosmac Elf.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Too many pollution control devices slowed it down.

[Rocky]

Some information on Voyager and interstellar plasma:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/voyager20130912.html#.UjLLNX-Tly0

[UCANSEE2]

It isn’t sound. Voyager is detecting plasma waves, and that info was converted into sound, and a graphic ‘map’, for human consumption.

[no-to-illegals]

yep, noticed that after reading more and observing the time frame of the graph over months. Only when condensed do the waves appear as sound. Perhaps it is the speaking of Angels one to another?

[fso301]

Pioneer 10 was launched in 1972 and beat both Voyagers out of the Solar System. P10 exited circa 2003.

The Voyagers traveling faster have overtaken both Pioneer craft. I think Pioneer 10 was the first beyond Pluto and at the time, little to nothing was known about the sun's influence beyond Pluto. Now, more is known and I believe what Voyager just did was pass the farthest known influence of our solar system.