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Color plot of the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 trajectories. While Voyager two visited all four outer planets, Voyager 1 took a quicker route to Jupiter and Saturn that sent it careening out of the solar system.

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  1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 18:24:37 UTC Robert McNees Robert McNees

    The Voyager 1 space probe was launched from Cape Canaveral #OTD in 1977, a few weeks after Voyager 2.

    Now it's the most distant human-made object – about 14.96 billion miles from Earth, racing away from us at 38,000 miles per hour with respect to the Sun.

    Images: NASA/KSC/JPL

    In conversation about a year ago from mastodon.social permalink
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