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Science 6 July 2001:
Vol. 293. no. 5527, pp. 55 - 56
DOI: 10.1126/science.1060090
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Perspectives
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Enhanced: News from the Edge of Interstellar Space
Edward C. Stone
The Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft are currently traveling through the outer reaches of the solar system. As Stone explains in this Perspective, Voyager 1 may soon encounter the termination shock, a region that provides a clue to the overall size of the heliosphere. Current estimates suggest that the termination shock is located at 80 to 100 times the Sun-Earth distance; Voyager 1 may soon provide a more precise answer.
The author is in the Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. E-mail: ecs{at}srl.caltech.edu
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