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MIT instrument surprises at solar system's edge

The Voyager 2 spacecraft's Plasma Science instrument, developed at MIT in the 1970s, has turned up surprising revelations about the the temperature and magnetic field in the boundary zone that marks the edge of the sun's influence in space.

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