@BudCharles (View Post)
http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/wspace?tbody=504&vbody=502&month=4&day=30&year=2011&hour=00&minute=00&fovmul=1&rfov=120&bfov=30&porbs=1&brite=1&showsc=1

it is behind Jupiter.

the voyager probes are still on their journey...to leave the solar system!! They will leave in 2016. They are entering something but they are still in the solar system. they are already farther than pluto!!

@stickman101 (View Post)
Entering the Kuiper Belt, the asteroid belt around the edge of the solar system?

no,farther than that,It's the heliosheath. It is about 3 times farther than pluto as it's distance as they enter before they leave.We are in a "bubble" called the termination shock.

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@stickman101 (View Post)
This may be helpful: http://www.sciencetechmag.com/wp-content/uploads/images/NASA_Probe_Sees_Solar_Wind_Decline_En_Route_to_Interstellar_Space.jpg

hey that's the photo I saw!! Is there really life on other planets? My first guess:Mars,Europa,and Titan.

Voayger's 1 and 2's life batteries will be out in 15 years. still long though.



The drama takes place on Darwin IV, a fictional planet 6.5 light-years from Earth, with two suns and 60 percent gravity. Having identified Darwin as a world that could support life, Earth sends a pilot mission consisting of the mothership Von Braun and three probes: Balboa, Da Vinci and Newton. This unmanned fleet is responsible for finding and assessing any life-forms on Darwin IV. Initially, the expectation is to find microscopic life, but the probes soon find themselves in the middle of a developed ecosystem teeming with life of all sizes.

The viewer experiences Darwin IV through the "eyes" of the probes Ike (Newton) and Leo (Da Vinci), whose data is relayed back to the mothership and then communicated to Earth. The biological and atmospheric data from the probes and mothership are relayed to viewers through computer voice simulation and on-screen readouts.

Real scientists consider data in this planetary environment. They discuss the larger issues of the possibilities of life outside our solar system and deconstruct the animals on Darwin IV, basing the analysis on the laws of evolution and physics. Where possible, life-size animal images and the real probe prototypes will help the audience to understand the current, real basis of the search for other planets. Stephen Hawking, Michio Kaku and other big thinkers and scientists will participate in the discussion of where science is today. Other participants include Jack Horner, Craig Venter, George Lucas and NASA's chief scientist, Jim Garvin.

The drama on Darwin IV is motivated by real science missions, such as the NASA Origins Program and the NASA/JPL Planet-Finder Mission, as well as the European Space Agency's Darwin Project. The Discovery Channel's founder, John Hendricks, recently announced that Discovery is helping to fund a planet-finding telescope, at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz. Rooted in real-life endeavors, scientists have designed the planet of Darwin IV (which lies in a known star system), the probes and spacecraft, as well as the various life-forms found.

@Anmol444 (View Post)
post it in creations, not here.

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