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I just wanted to chime in with a reminder that though Voyager 1 is speeding away from Sol at a constant velocity because of the Earth's revolution around the su
by PeterCorless 2y ago
I just wanted to chime in with a reminder that though Voyager 1 is speeding away from Sol at a constant velocity because of the Earth's revolution around the sun it can be up to ±1 AU closer or further away, depending on the time of the year.
This article is for Voyager 2, but the issue is the same. For a brief moment every year we actually get closer to Voyager 1, then we pivot away in our revolution around the sun and the distance between Earth and Voyager 1 or 2 increases sharply. So distance, when plotted over time, looks like a wobbly line.
https://earthsky.org/space/voyager-spacecraft-getting-closer-to-earth/ https://earthsky.org/space/voyager-spacecraft-getting-closer...
- olddustytrail 2y agoSurely 2AU depending on whether we're on the same side of the sun or we're on the dark side.