Target:
Mission: Voyager
Spacecraft: Voyager 1
Instrument: Magnetometer
Size: 2006 x 1479
ID#: PIA16482
Added: 2012-12-03

The Sun's Southern Wind Flows Northward

This artist's concept shows how NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is bathed in solar wind from the southern hemisphere flowing northward. This phenomenon creates a layer of giant bubble of solar ions just inside the outer boundary of the heliosphere.

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