Re:Engineers investigating NASA’s Voyager 1 telemetry data
by hericium on Thursday May 19, 2022 @01:10AM
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> The Oort Cloud is the most distant region of our solar system [1]
> the spacecraft [Voyager 1] will take about 300 years to reach the inner boundary of the Oort Cloud and probably another 30,000 years to exit the far side [1]
> The inner edge of the Oort Cloud (...) is thought to be between 2,000 and 5,000 AU [astronomical units] from the Sun. The outer edge might be 10,000 or even 100,000 AU from the Sun [1]
> Voyager 1 (...) Distance from Sun: 156.42163354 AU [2]
> the spacecraft [Voyager 1] will take about 300 years to reach the inner boundary of the Oort Cloud and probably another 30,000 years to exit the far side [1]
> The inner edge of the Oort Cloud (...) is thought to be between 2,000 and 5,000 AU [astronomical units] from the Sun. The outer edge might be 10,000 or even 100,000 AU from the Sun [1]
> Voyager 1 (...) Distance from Sun: 156.42163354 AU [2]
[1] https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/oort-cloud/overvie...
[2] https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/