Summary: Voyager’s Discoveries at the Solar System’s Edge Episode 19 by John Rennie (Click here to directly access the MP3) (Access the full text transcript) For the past 35 years, NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft have been speeding away from the sun. And although they completed their exploratory missions to the outer planets in the late 1980s, the probes have continued to send back readings from the void beyond Pluto. As a result, almost any day now—maybe tomorrow, maybe in just a couple of years—Voyager 1 will do something that no object made by human hands ever has: it will leave the solar system. And the data that the Voyager spacecraft are sending back to Earth about the edge of the solar system is quite surprising! Listen to the Podcast for more… For more information about the Voyager mission, visit NASA’s Voyager website. John Rennie (www.johnrennie.net, @tvjrennie) is a science writer, editor and lecturer based in New York City. For 15 years he served as editor in chief of Scientific American. Currently, he writes “The Gleaming Retort” for the PLoS Blogs science blogging network and “The Savvy Scientist” column for SmartPlanet.com, among other projects. He is on the faculty of the Banff Centre Science Communications Program and of the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University.
