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Voyager 1 approaches one light-day from Earth
Original: Voyager 1 is 25.84 billion km/16.06 billion miles away from Earth and will reach 1 light-day from Earth in 23 days, 18 h
Voyager 1, NASA's most distant spacecraft, is now 25.84 billion kilometres (16.06 billion miles) from Earth and is projected to reach a distance of one light-day — the distance light travels in a full day — in roughly 24 days. Its twin, Voyager 2, sits further back at 21.63 billion kilometres. Space watchers are marking the milestone as a striking measure of how far the 1977-era probe has travelled into interstellar space.
Why now: Voyager 1 is about to cross the symbolic threshold of being one full light-day away from Earth for the first time.
Evidence
- Voyager 1 is 25.84 billion km/16.06 billion miles away from Earth and will reach 1 light-day from Earth in 23 days, 18 hours: https:// eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-syste m/#/sc_voyager_1/distance?to=earth Voyager 2 is 21.63 billion km/13.44 billion miles away from Earth: https://… · voyagers@stefanbohacek.online · 7
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