Voyager 1 reaches the edge of our solar system

.blitz
.blitz Posts: 6,197
edited December 2010 in The Crudcatcher
It has done 10 billion miles in 32 years that's what I call reliable.

Voyager 1 is leaving the solar system

Earth from 4 billion miles away:

blue_dot_010925_03.jpg

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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,673
    well it will leave in the next few years .......
    "Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
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  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    edited December 2010
    It is pretty amazing, must be about time for an oil change though.
    MTB/CX

    "As I said last time, it won't happen again."
  • El Capitano
    El Capitano Posts: 6,400
    .blitz wrote:
    Earth from 4 billion miles away:

    blue_dot_010925_03.jpg

    *waves at Voyager*
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  • .blitz
    .blitz Posts: 6,197
    :)
  • blister pus
    blister pus Posts: 5,610
    Always reminds me of Carl Sagan's 'Pale Blue Dot'
  • Daz555
    Daz555 Posts: 3,976
    Incredible machine.
    You only need two tools: WD40 and Duck Tape.
    If it doesn't move and should, use the WD40.
    If it shouldn't move and does, use the tape.
  • Thewaylander
    Thewaylander Posts: 8,593
    I find it fascinating, I was looking at the reports this morning, Solar winds have stopped where it is proving it's on the edge and about to hit a whole different region in space!
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    So, when is it entering uranus?
  • montevideoguy
    montevideoguy Posts: 2,271
    It avoided uranus and went straight for the deep chasm of Jordan's front bum (read: space)
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  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    Montevideoguy wrote:
    Jordan's front bum (read: space)

    Cold, dark, lifeless, seemingly endless, complicated protective suits needed to enter it. Sounds about right.



    More men have been there than in space though.
    MTB/CX

    "As I said last time, it won't happen again."
  • montevideoguy
    montevideoguy Posts: 2,271
    Even Gareth Gates had a go


    Says it all
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  • projectsome
    projectsome Posts: 4,010
    Space version of the Mexican Border??
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  • sheepsteeth
    sheepsteeth Posts: 17,418
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    So, when is it entering uranus?

    question of the day, no doubt.
    Harry von Big Sticks
  • MountainMonster
    MountainMonster Posts: 7,423
    What i want to know is how they keep reliable account of the statistics from it, and actually receive them. Jesus, i walk into a stone room and my phone signal fades away, how the fark do they get signals that far.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    MountainMonster wrote:
    What i want to know is how they keep reliable account of the statistics from it, and actually receive them. Jesus, i walk into a stone room and my phone signal fades away, how the fark do they get signals that far.
    Because even Wales' greatest dry stone wallers (like the ones responsible for making dry stone walls that run up near ertical cliff-edges in Snowdonia) have not ventured far enough into space to create a barrier between the earth and the probe.
  • Richie63
    Richie63 Posts: 2,132
    MountainMonster wrote:
    What i want to know is how they keep reliable account of the statistics from it, and actually receive them. Jesus, i walk into a stone room and my phone signal fades away, how the fark do they get signals that far.

    Radio waves -your phone uses Phone waves -totally different things.
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  • blister pus
    blister pus Posts: 5,610
    And they have global big ears doing the work: Deep Space Network
  • MountainMonster
    MountainMonster Posts: 7,423
    Ah that's quite cool. Science stuff is cool.
    My London Road
  • Richie63
    Richie63 Posts: 2,132
    Where Voyager is it certainly is cool ......pretty fking cool

    anyway doesn't it come back to terrorise the planet sometime in the future? ( startrek the movie)
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  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    Montevideoguy wrote:
    Even Gareth Gates had a go


    Says it all

    I've got a very clever parrot.





    Says it all really.
    MTB/CX

    "As I said last time, it won't happen again."

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