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Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from an unprecedented distance of over 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU), as part of that day's Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System.
Voyager 1 is expected to reach the theorized Oort cloud in about 300 years [118] [119] and take about 30,000 years to pass through it. [ 72 ] [ 83 ] Though it is not heading towards any particular star, in about 40,000 years, it will pass within 1.6 light-years (0.49 parsecs ) of the star Gliese 445 , which is at present in the constellation ...
The Voyager program is an American scientific program that employs two interstellar probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. They were launched in 1977 to take advantage of a favorable planetary alignment to explore the two gas giants Jupiter and Saturn and potentially also the ice giants, Uranus and Neptune - to fly near them while collecting data for ...
800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Mail. Sign in. Subscriptions; Animals. ... Voyager 1, at 15.5 billion miles away (24.9 billion kilometers), is the farthest human-made object from Earth ...
Voyager 1's four instruments are back in business after a computer problem in November, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said this week. The team first received meaningful information again from ...
Engineers finally received a status update from the most distant spacecraft from Earth, after identifying the cause of the aging probe’s five-month communication issue.
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Voyager 1’s trajectory took it up and out of the plane after passing Saturn, while Voyager 2 passed over the top of Neptune and moved down and out of the plane, Suzanne Dodd, Voyager’s project ...