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- 1Voyager 1 Needed 50 Years to Travel One Light-Day●It took Voyager I 50 years to travel 1 light-day (or 25.9B kilometres) // Article in French // - - - Cela a pris 50 ans
NASA's Voyager 1 probe has taken roughly 50 years since its launch to cover a distance of one light-day, about 25.9 billion kilometres, according to an article by Quebec science outlet Agence Science-Presse. The figure is being shared to illustrate just how vast interstellar space is: even humanity's farthest spacecraft moves at a crawl compared to the speed of light.