• Question: what satalite has gone the furthest from plant earth

    Asked by velociraptor to Ryan on 21 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Ryan Cheale

      Ryan Cheale answered on 21 Jun 2015:


      Voyager 1 🙂

      It was launched in 1977! Well before you and I were born! It has just left our solar system, which is determined by where the suns influence ends. It’s about 130 AU away, where an AU is the distance between us and the sun so it’s 130 times further then we are to the sun!

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