IGPP Featured by the Magazine of UC Riverside
Posted:2/21/2008
The successful prediction by UCR’s Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics of when Voyager 2 would exit the solar system is just one area of research taking place at one of the campus’ fastest-growing institutes.
In a particularly busy corner of UCR’s Pierce Hall, Haruichi Washimi and his team were in the prediction business. Their task: Calculate when and where the spacecraft Voyager 2 would exit our solar system. Their crystal ball: a complex computer model that digested so much information it could probably fill outer space.
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