A group of amateur (non-government) atronomers have picked up a signal from Voyager 1.
The quality of the engineering on Voyager 1 must have been astounding, hard to believe it’s still functioning.
The NASA image above shows just how far Voyager 1 and 2 have reached - yes the yellow dot is the sun.
The distance was 14.7 billion km.
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This distance equals approximately 98 times the distance between Earth and Sun. VOYAGER 1 is the most distant object ever built by mankind.
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VOYAGER 1 was launched on 5. September 1977 by NASA. It transmitted the first close-up pictures of Jupiter and Saturn. In 2004 VOYAGER 1 passed the Termination Shock Region, where the solar wind mixes with interstellar gas. VOYAGER 1 today is still active, measuring the interstellar magnetic field.
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