Voyager 1 reaches edge of solar system

Would be awesome to see Real-time video footage from it. Unfortunately that technology didn't exist back then. Still awesome what was accomplished back in '77.

Amazing...

Would be awesome to see Real-time video footage from it. Unfortunately that technology didn't exist back then. Still awesome what was accomplished back in '77. Now that would be something! Imagine running that film compressed down to about 10 hours. I reckon we should fire of a camera and stick it to every passing comet. Then download them on the return path.

Hazzard was saying this morning that it would take 17,000 years to make it out to one light year from our solar system. There is a lot to see out there. Mostly nothing, but the bits that do pop up are pretty impressive.

Too cool!

Just thinking about all the possibilities makes my head hurt Voyager 1 we love you buddy

It really gives you an idea of the utter vastness of space that the furthest man made object from Earth is travelling at just under a million miles per day, took over 30 years to reach the edge of our solar system (depending on how you define where the solar system ends), and if it were travelling towards the closest star to the sun, would still take another 70,000 years to get there. That's just to get to the closest star to our solar system. 70,000 years at 900,000 miles per day! Space is staggeringly, unimaginably big.

Space is staggeringly, unimaginably big. That's a good a point as any to post this: http://blogs.discovery.com/.a/6a00d8341bf67c53ef0148c72b3cbd970c-800wi The picture, for those who have poor connections.

That's some genuine wisdom for the ages right there.Interesting that Carl Sagan should pop up in a slight derail about the vastness of space in this discussion as he was one of the scientists who helped design the golden disc about the Voyager 1 spacecraft, that should it be discovered by ET life, will potentially provide them with some information of where Voyager 1 came from.

Yep, s'part of the reason I posted the vid. One of the professors at the local college and a member of the Astronomy Club I go to worked with Sagan on the Voyager mission.