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Voyager 1's first pictures of Jupiter beamed back to Earth in April 1978, when the probe was 165 million miles (266 million kilometers) from home. Did you know?
The farthest is from the Voyager 1 spacecraft, which captured Earth from 3.7 billion miles away. The first photo of Earth from space, taken just 65 miles above our planet ...
Voyager 1 sent back spectacular photos of Jupiter and its giant red spot. ... Many of us remember the Pale Blue Dot, a haunting picture of the Earth it took on Feb 14, 1990, ...
The NASA Voyager craft have traveled through space, beyond the planets, for decades. Scientist Alan Cummings saw some of the first images returned to Earth.
Voyager 1 is so far away from Earth, it takes 22-and-a-half hours for a signal to reach the ship, and then the same time for it to get back. JPL scientists were able to confirm the solution worked ...
When Voyager 1 launched in 1977, scientists hoped it could do what it was built to do and take up-close images of Jupiter and Saturn. It did that — and much more.
After many months of extremely long-distance repairs, NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe is fully operational once again. “The spacecraft has resumed gathering information about interstellar space ...
Voyager 1 and 2 have obtained stunning pictures and information about the cosmos, and have both been in continuous contact with Earth since their launch. Voyager 1 is the most distant human-made ...
While the S-band uses less power, Voyager 1 had not used it to communicate with Earth since 1981. It uses a different frequency than the X-band transmitters signal is significantly fainter.
Voyager 1, the most distant human-made object from Earth, is behaving strangely. It’s not easy to diagnose and fix problems from 15.1 billion miles (24.4 billion kilometers) away, but NASA is ...