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Heliosheath is a part of space which is out of our solar system and is just past the termination shock. What it is or what it does, i do not know, that will be something you just have to find out...
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Where is the space probe now?
If you are talking about Voyager in is just entering the Heliosheath or 110.94 AU from the Sun or 10.312 billion miles
Where is the 1977 launched voyager now?
There were two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977. The most distant is Voyager 1 which is currently just of 10 billion miles from the Sun. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, both launched in 1977 are now both in the region of the solar sytem called the heliosheath, over 16 Billion kilometres away form the earth. The heliosheath is the region of the solar system between the Termination Shock Zone and the Heliopause
Where is Voyager 1?
Voyager 1 is about 109 AU (10 billion miles) from the Sun and has passed the termination shock, [See Link] and is entering the heliosheath, with the current goal of reaching and studying the heliopause, which is the known boundary of our stellar system.
Places that cant be polluted by humans?
So far we haven't been able to pollute beyond the heliosheath, unless you consider electromagnetic radiation a form of pollution. (If you do, then our current limit is a sphere about 40 parsecs in diameter and expanding). Other than that... we're pretty darn good at polluting.
When will voyager 2 leave the solar system?
That kind of depends on where you consider the boundary of "the solar system" to be. It's currently in the "heliosheath" and will probably reach the heliopause... which is one reasonable definition of "outside the solar system"... within the next ten years or so. Voyager 1, which is further away and moving faster, is expected to reach this boundary in about 2015, but Voyager 2 reached the heliosheath significantly closer to the Sun than Voyager 1 did... this boundary appears to be "dented" in the direction that Voyager 2 is heading. Voyager 2 is well outside what most non-scientists think of as "the solar system" already... it's over twice as far from the Sun as Pluto is, for example.
Where is Voyager 1 and 2 relative location?
The simple answer is that they are both in the heliosheath. The complex answer is that if you take the X,Y,Z coordinates of both satellites, you can determine their position relative to each other. I would do that math for you, but when I checked NASA is no longer posting Voyager position coordinates to their Web site. But when they put them back up, we may be able to do that calculation.
What are the measurements of the solar system?
The solar system or heliosheath (the point at which the Solar wind has no influence) is generally regarded to be between 10 & 14 AU (1 AU = 93,000,000 miles). This should be defined more accurately as the Voyager space probes travel into this area. As at June 2010 Voyager 1 encountered an area where the solar wind slowed to zero. This could be defined as the boundary of the Solar system (about 10.6 Billion miles away)
Does electromagnetic waves require matter to travel through?
No. However 'space' is not the empty nothingness envisaged 100 years ago, but is now termed the 'interstellar medium' (ISM) or intergalactic (IGM) and the 'quantum vacuum' is considered as 'teeming with activity', now also from the 'Higgs field' which promotes condensed matter (normally termed 'pair production'. in Earth's ionospheric shock particle densities are up to 10^14/cm^-3. Mainly considered as electorns. Hight Electron or 'dark matter' densities also exist in the heliosheath (solar system bow shock) and galactic halo. For a real picture of another suns heliosheath lit up by nebula gas google NASA LL Orionis. So em waves may not in theory need 'matter' to propagate, but atomic scattering means they are charging and being re-emitted by particles continually, and any CHANGE in their optical angles (paths) or wavelengths (so frequencies) does require coupling interaction with matter (the foundational mechanism of refraction).
What information do the Voyager space probes transmit?
Early in their travels, the Voyager probes sent back loads of pictures, atmospheric data, and trajectory information and magnetic data. Probably the only usable data these days is from the low energy charged particle detector in Voyager 1 which, after some gyroscope rolls, is known to have slowed to zero suggesting it has left the heliosphere. And Voyager 2's plasma detection experiment (this is no longer working on Voyager 1) which is giving us insight into the heliosheath.
Where is spacecraft Galileo now?
Voyager 1 is about 109 AU (10 billion miles) from the Sun and has passed the termination shock, [See Link] and is entering the heliosheath, with the current goal of reaching and studying the heliopause, which is the known boundary of our stellar system.
Where are voyagers 1 and 2 currently?
Voyager 1 is now the farthest man-made object from earth. As of September 26, 2008, it is about 107.58 AU (16.093 billion km, or 9.94 billion miles) from the Sun, and has thus entered the heliosheath, the termination shock region between the solar system and interstellar space. As of September 26, 2008, Voyager 2 is at a distance of around 87.03 AU (13.019 billion km, or 8.077 billion miles) from the Sun , deep in the scattered disc, and traveling outward at roughly 3.28 AUs per year. It is more than twice as far from the Sun as Pluto.
Where exactly is Voyager 1 right now?
Voyager 1 and 2 were launched in 1977, and explored the outer planets during the 70's and 80's. They are still partially operational today, on their way out of our solar system. Voyager 1 is the most distant man made object to date, currently around 116 astronomical units from earth.
