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1 million miles per day is an insane figure
by whalesalad 3y ago
1 million miles per day is an insane figure
- ta8645 3y agoAnd yet it's a vanishingly small distance on the scale of the universe. Mind bending.
- boringg 3y agoExactly - that's the part thats truly amazing. 30000 years to the outside of the oort cloud - thats still in our system (border of it) - not even scratching the universe in the faintest.
- zamfi 3y agoYou do it every day! The Earth itself moves faster than Voyager -- 1.6 million miles per day.
- paxys 3y agoThe tiny difference here is that we made Voyager.
- isolli 3y agoAnother difference is that we sent Voyager traveling orthogonally to Earth's orbit. Well, not exactly, but you get the point... > Voyager 1 is now leaving the solar system, rising above the ecliptic plane at an angle of about 35 degrees at a rate of about 520 million kilometers (about 320 million miles) a year. Voyager 2 is also headed out of the solar system, diving below the ecliptic plane at an angle of about 48 degrees and a rate of about 470 million kilometers (about 290 million miles) a year. https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/frequently-asked-questions/fact-sheet/ https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/frequently-asked-questions/fact...
- whalesalad 3y agoDoesn’t count. Earth has gravity. It’s immense. It has an atmosphere. Voyager is a tiny little man made craft flying out - naked - into the unknown.