Voyager 1 - 35 years later
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Topic: Voyager 1 - 35 years later
Posted By: nothing
Subject: Voyager 1 - 35 years later
Date Posted: 04 September 2012 at 3:11pm
Well it has not left the sun reaching power yet, one sun out of more 200 billions in this galaxy, one galaxy out of hundreds of billions galaxies . Quite impressive machine this one, it was predicted by some it would go down long before, yet it still communicative.------------------------------------------------ Voyager 1 is in uncharted celestial territory. One thing is clear: The boundary that separates the solar system and interstellar space is near, but it could take days, months or years to cross that milestone. Voyager 1 is currently more than 11 billion miles from the sun. Twin Voyager 2, which celebrated its launch anniversary two weeks ago, trails behind at 9 billion miles from the sun. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/technology/sci-tech/voyager-1-heads-for-stars-after-35-years/story-fn5iztw3-1226465151486 - http://www.heraldsun.com.au/technology/sci-tech/voyager-1-heads-for-stars-after-35-years/story-fn5iztw3-1226465151486 |
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Posted By: Ron Webb
Date Posted: 04 September 2012 at 5:40pm
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Eleven billion miles is impossible to imagine, but here is one way to get some sense of it. A radio transmission can go around the world (25,000 miles) in about 1/7 of a second; but a radio transmission from Voyager I takes almost 17 hours to reach us!
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