Voyager 2’s Discoveries from Interstellar Space
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#2I'm amazed and still can't get my head around how today we can receive images and valuable data from a device which is currently lightdays away from us and was built with 60's technology & know-how and is operating well beyond it's expected lifetime.
I raise my glass to the engineers who worked on this. Makes my daily programming tasks feel stupid in comparison.
Edit: corrected, thanks for the numbers
Re: Voyager 2’s Discoveries from Interstellar Space
#3I'm amazed and still can't get my head around how today we can receive images and valuable data from a device which is currently lightdays away from us and was built with 60's technology & know-how and is operating well beyond it's expected lifetime. I raise my glass to the engineers who worked on this. Makes my daily programming tasks feel stupid in comparison. Edit: corrected, thanks for the numbers
Just FYI nothing man made is even close to light years away from the Earth.
EDIT: I don't understand the downvotes. Isn't this just fact?
EDIT 2: I see the OP changed his original comment, so I can understand the confusion. Thanks all :)
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#4I'm amazed and still can't get my head around how today we can receive images and valuable data from a device which is currently lightdays away from us and was built with 60's technology & know-how and is operating well beyond it's expected lifetime. I raise my glass to the engineers who worked on this. Makes my daily programming tasks feel stupid in comparison. Edit: corrected, thanks for the numbers
FYI Voyager 1 is about 20 light hours away.
Re: Voyager 2’s Discoveries from Interstellar Space
#5I'm amazed and still can't get my head around how today we can receive images and valuable data from a device which is currently lightdays away from us and was built with 60's technology & know-how and is operating well beyond it's expected lifetime. I raise my glass to the engineers who worked on this. Makes my daily programming tasks feel stupid in comparison. Edit: corrected, thanks for the numbers
Voyager 1 is about 0,0023409 lightyears away from earth (voyager 2 is a bit closer than that).
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#6I'm amazed and still can't get my head around how today we can receive images and valuable data from a device which is currently lightdays away from us and was built with 60's technology & know-how and is operating well beyond it's expected lifetime. I raise my glass to the engineers who worked on this. Makes my daily programming tasks feel stupid in comparison. Edit: corrected, thanks for the numbers
Just FYI nothing man made is even close to light years away from the Earth. EDIT: I don't understand the downvotes. Isn't this just fact? EDIT 2: I see the OP changed his original comment, so I can understand the confusion. Thanks all :)
voyager 1 which is currently the farthest man made object from earth is approx 147 AU away, where as 1 light year is equiv to 63241.1 AU... so it has a little ways to go still :)
Re: Voyager 2’s Discoveries from Interstellar Space
#7I'm amazed and still can't get my head around how today we can receive images and valuable data from a device which is currently lightdays away from us and was built with 60's technology & know-how and is operating well beyond it's expected lifetime. I raise my glass to the engineers who worked on this. Makes my daily programming tasks feel stupid in comparison. Edit: corrected, thanks for the numbers
Voyager 1, the most distant probe, is about 0.002 light years away from the earth.
Re: Voyager 2’s Discoveries from Interstellar Space
#8I'm amazed and still can't get my head around how today we can receive images and valuable data from a device which is currently lightdays away from us and was built with 60's technology & know-how and is operating well beyond it's expected lifetime. I raise my glass to the engineers who worked on this. Makes my daily programming tasks feel stupid in comparison. Edit: corrected, thanks for the numbers
Voyager 1 is 0.00234 light years from Earth, Voyager 2 is 0.00194 ly. Or in more useful units: 20.5 and 17 light hours.
Also we do not receive images any more (the cameras were made for planetary encounters and have been turned off long ago).
But yes, getting data (at 160 bits per second) from man made objects that are the better part of a light day away is impressive. Even more so because they have been working for 42 years now, 30 years past the initial planetary mission.
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#9I'm amazed and still can't get my head around how today we can receive images and valuable data from a device which is currently lightdays away from us and was built with 60's technology & know-how and is operating well beyond it's expected lifetime. I raise my glass to the engineers who worked on this. Makes my daily programming tasks feel stupid in comparison. Edit: corrected, thanks for the numbers
Anyone has any details of how its implemented ? Arch diagram of some sort ?
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#10Its just simple is awe-inspiring