35 years ago tomorrow, Voyager 1 left our Earth and set out on a mission that very few people are aware of. Apart from the fact that Voyager 1 and 2 will be the only man made objects that will have reached the end of our solar system, there are some other interesting facts.
It is interesting to know the kind of equipment that Voyager carried on board in 1977. It just has 68Kb of computer memory!! An 8 track tape recorder.. (Say whaaat!!). Gold plated discs containing multilingual greetings, music and pictures, in a hope that an intelligent species may come across it and be able to decode.
Today Voyager 1 is 11 billion miles away and Voyager 2 is 9 billion miles from the Sun. It takes 17 hours for a radio signal from Voyager 1 to reach earth and 12 hours (or maybe 15 hrs) from Voyager 2.
The news that Voyager exited our Solar System will sure be something I will look out for and milestone to remember and cherish.
Source: yahoo news
