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At The Edge Of Our Solar System, NASA's Voyager 1 Found A 'Wall Of Fire' - Jalopnik (www.jalopnik.com)
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[–] recked_wralph@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fair. I’m still curious how it detects a single atom in the vacuum of space though

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As to the sensing mechanism specifically I am not sure other than that it has to do with detecting a differential in energy, but the sensor in question is the Low Energy Charged Particle Instrument.