Re:Engineers investigating NASA’s Voyager 1 telemetry data
by ISL on Thursday May 19, 2022 @01:15AM
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Thank you for sharing the upper link. It is serially inspiring.
Watching the distances crawl up by many miles/second is kinda bonkers, and the 3D view allows the mind's eye to imagine a new pale-blue dot photo that encompasses every planet we've ever known.
Re:Engineers investigating NASA’s Voyager 1 telemetry data
by freeflight on Thursday May 19, 2022 @01:13AM
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Was disappointed to see so many of their systems offline, thinking they broke, but clicking on their status reveals that most of the systems are actually turned off to save power, including;
> "Wide-angle and narrow-angle cameras off to save power (Feb. 14, 1990)"
One of the last photos Voyager 1 took back then was looking back at Earth as a Pale Blue Dot [0]
Makes me wonder if those cameras could be turned back on, in case one of the Voyagers comes across something interesting?
[0] https://www.space.com/pale-blue-dot-voyager-1-photo-30th-ann...
Re:Engineers investigating NASA’s Voyager 1 telemetry data
by ISL on Thursday May 19, 2022 @01:21AM
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It's a power problem. The radiothermal generator's power output decays exponentially. The PBD photo was taken at approximately the last time that the cameras could be used.
Re:Engineers investigating NASA’s Voyager 1 telemetry data
by take_it_not on Thursday May 19, 2022 @04:03AM
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dang I didn’t know they are so fast…38,210 mph! this is crazy, i could not imagine seeing it pass thru…
Voyager 1 flew beyond the heliopause in 2012; Voyager 2 in 2018: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/interstellar-mission/