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<font color="orange">NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered the solar system's final frontier. It is entering a vast, turbulent expanse where the Sun's influence ends and the solar wind crashes into the thin gas between stars.<br /><br />Scientists agree that Voyager 1 has crossed the termination shock and is now in the heliosheath.<br /><br />The most persuasive evidence that Voyager 1 crossed the termination shock is its measurement of a sudden increase in the strength of the magnetic field carried by the solar wind, combined with an inferred decrease in its speed. This happens whenever the solar wind slows down. <br /> <br /><br />http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2005-084</font> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>