How far away are the Voyager probes?
Find out for yourself! Voyager 2 has its own Twitter account and regularly updates followers with her current distance, in terms of light-travel time, from the Earth. She answers questions from followers too, presumably via her engineers.
You can read and follow her tweets here: @voyager2
She also tweets about her sister, Voyager 1's distance from the Earth in the same terms. Her latest distance tweets are:
You can read and follow her tweets here: @voyager2
She also tweets about her sister, Voyager 1's distance from the Earth in the same terms. Her latest distance tweets are:
I am currently 12 hrs 56 mins 28 secs of light-travel time from Earth
You can read more about what the Voyager probes are doing out there at this post.
I asked that question ages ago didn't I? How weird to think that space probes tweet!
ReplyDeleteYou asked a very similar question, and I have linked to my answer in the above post!
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