Voyager 1 still providing new scientific information after all these years.
It is so far away now that at 186,000 miles per second it takes 16 hours for a command to reach it! Dang.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12688246
Voyager 1 just keeps on ticking...
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Voyager 1 just keeps on ticking...
by Baak » Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:09 am
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by vinylrake » Thu Mar 10, 2011 6:06 am
man i could never plan that far ahead. "ok, in about 16 hours you will want to take a right"
on a somewhat related note, if you've ever noticed Nasa's "Picture of the Day" here's a couple of ways you can download the whole archive in a single step (one is a torrent, the other is a command line wget 'script')
on a somewhat related note, if you've ever noticed Nasa's "Picture of the Day" here's a couple of ways you can download the whole archive in a single step (one is a torrent, the other is a command line wget 'script')
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