News tagged with terminal speed

No more solar wind for Voyager 1 spacecraft

(PhysOrg.com) -- The 33-year odyssey of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached a distant point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion of solar wind.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 13, 2010 | 4.9 / 5 (48) | 33 |

Maybe it's raining less than we thought

It's conventional wisdom in atmospheric science circles: large raindrops fall faster than smaller drops, because they're bigger and heavier. And no raindrop can fall faster than its "terminal speed"—its speed when the downward ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Jun 11, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (6) | 1