The two
Voyager
spacecraft carry identical plasma wave receivers built and
operated by
The University of Iowa
. The instruments made the first surveys of
plasma wave and low-frequency radio wave phenomena
at the outer planets,
in the outer heliosphere, and now in interstellar space.
Data from these instruments are generally available through the
Outer Planets Subnode
of the
Planetary Plasma Interactions Node
of
NASA
's
Planetary Data System
or by contacting the PI,
Bill Kurth
(e-mail
william-kurth@uiowa.edu
).
Voyagers in Interstellar Space
In Situ Observations of Interstellar Plasma With Voyager 1
by D. A. Gurnett, W. S. Kurth, L. F. Burlaga, and N. F. Ness,
Science, 341,
pp. 1489-1492,
doi:10.1126/science.1241681, 2013
Listen to the sounds of interstellar space
captured by the U. of Iowa
Voyager 1 instrument traveling beyond the heliosphere.
NASA Press Release, Voyager 1 Reaches Interstellar Space, Sept. 12, 2013,
Historical Documents of 2013
(pages 423-429),
ed. by H. Kerrigan, SQ Press/Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California. (6MB
PDF file)
NASA News Conference: Voyager Reaches Interstellar Space
, Sept. 12, 2013.
Voyager 1 spacecraft reaches interstellar space
,
Sept. 12, 2013, U. of Iowa news release
A short history of Voyager's historic journey
,
Sept. 12, 2013, U. of Iowa news article, including video interviews
New York Times
front page, Sept. 13, 2013
Public lecture:
Voyager's Epic Journey into Interstellar Space
, Sept. 16,
2013, Lecture Room 1 Van Allen Hall (
Watch the lecture on YouTube
, courtesy of Hawkeye Network TV)
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