The radio transmitter on Voyager 1 operates on just 22 Watts, about the same power as a standard refrigerator light bulb. Yet, NASA’s Deep Space Network picks up its signal from over 15 billion miles away.
Etched into Voyager 1’s Golden Record is an hour-long recording of brainwaves from creative director Ann Druyan. While being recorded, she was thinking about Earth's history, human struggle, and falling in love with Carl Sagan.
The Voyager mission was only possible because Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune aligned in a rare geometric formation that occurs only once every 175 years, allowing gravity assists from planet to planet.
Tried explaining the physics of black holes to my girlfriend last night and she fell asleep midway through. I guess she just couldn't handle the gravity of the situation.
Voyager 1 is powered by Plutonium-238 oxide pellets. As the radioactive fuel decays, the spacecraft loses about 4 Watts of power every year, forcing engineers to shut down instruments one by one.
On Feb 14, 1990, Voyager 1 snapped the iconic "Pale Blue Dot" photo, then NASA turned its cameras off forever to save energy. It will never take another picture.
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Before Voyager 1, we thought Earth was the only world with active volcanoes in our solar system. Then Voyager spotted giant, fiery plumes on Jupiter’s moon Io.
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Saturn gets all the glory, but Voyager 1 shocked astronomers by revealing that Jupiter also wears a faint, hidden ring system invisible from Earth.
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Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in 2012, but it hasn't actually left the solar system. It will take another 300 years just to reach the edge of the Oort Cloud!
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To fully break free of the Sun's gravitational grip and exit the Oort Cloud, Voyager 1 has a long journey ahead: nearly 30,000 years.
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Out in the pitch-black void between stars, Voyager 1 captured something chilling: a constant, faint "interstellar hum" vibrating through cosmic plasma.
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The Golden Record carried by Voyager 1 is electroplated with pure Uranium-238. Why? Its radioactive decay acts as an atomic clock so extraterrestrials can calculate when it was launched.
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Carl Sagan originally wanted a photograph of a naked human couple on the Golden Record, but NASA vetoed it over outrage fears, settling on line drawings instead.
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Deep in space, NASA successfully fired up Voyager 1's backup thrusters after they sat completely dormant for decades.
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By the time Voyager 1’s radio signal reaches Earth, its power is billions of times weaker than a tiny wristwatch battery.
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During its 1979 Jupiter flyby, Voyager 1 absorbed radiation thousands of times higher than lethal human doses, nearly frying its circuitry.
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It takes over 23 hours for a radio signal to reach Voyager 1, and another 23 hours to get a reply back. Every single fix takes two full days!
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