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NASA's Voyager Found a 30k-50k Kelvin "Wall" at the Edge of Solar System

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kibwen ◴[23 Jun 25 17:03 UTC] No.44357762[source]▶
What sensor is Voyager using to measure "temperature" here?
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1. imchillyb ◴[23 Jun 25 22:59 UTC] No.44361076[source]▶
They're using Plasma Wave Sensor instrumentation:

> https://space.physics.uiowa.edu/plasma-wave/voyager/