{"id":3804,"date":"2015-10-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.hmc.edu\/physics\/2015\/10\/06\/voyager-1-in-the-interstellar-medium-what-are-we-seeing-out-there\/"},"modified":"2015-10-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T00:00:00","slug":"voyager-1-in-the-interstellar-medium-what-are-we-seeing-out-there","status":"publish","type":"physics_colloquium","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/research\/colloquium\/voyager-1-in-the-interstellar-medium-what-are-we-seeing-out-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Voyager 1 in the Interstellar Medium: What are we Seeing Out There?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"page-featured-image\" class=\"wp-block-image is-style-alignleft\" data-pic=\"pic-573.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/01\/pic-573.jpg\" alt=\"Promotional image for talk: Elements of a successful scientific talk\" data-pic=\"pic-573.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Speaker(s):<\/strong> John Belcher<\/p>\n<p>The Voyager spacecraft were launched in the Fall of 1977, 38 years ago. \u00a0After a \u201cgrand tour\u201d of the outer planets, ending with Voyager 2 at Neptune in 1989, the spacecraft have continued outward toward interstellar space, continuing to return data about the particle and field environment of the distant solar and interstellar medium. \u00a0Voyager 1 is farthest from the Sun and is in the interstellar medium. \u00a0Voyager 2 is about 20 astronomical units closer to the Sun than Voyager 1, and is still in the shocked solar wind. \u00a0Voyager 2 is expected to enter the interstellar medium in the next few years. \u00a0Voyager 1 is observing a number of interesting phenomena, including shocks in the interstellar medium. \u00a0I will discuss some early history of the mission and then the latest science results from Voyager 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3804","physics_colloquium","type-physics_colloquium","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium\/3804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/physics_colloquium"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}