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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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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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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 01:14:38 JST 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

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