How Far Can The Voyager 1 Travel?
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- čas přidán 16. 03. 2024
- How far can the Voyager 1 even travel? Since its launch on September 5, 1977, the voyager 1 has ventured beyond our solar system, and is providing unprecedented views of the outer planets and interstellar space. From capturing the intricate details of Jupiter's storms and Saturn's rings to the iconic "Pale Blue Dot" image that portrays Earth's fragile beauty, Voyager 1 has significantly expanded our understanding of the universe. Even at a staggering distance of 176 astronomical units from the Sun, it continues to communicate with Earth through the Deep Space Network.
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This is incredible!! Voyager 1 as been absolutely awesome. Just imagine how proud the engineers must feel who designed and built it!!
Watch the movie 'Farthest' and you can fully appreciate what went into them. The crew that designed and built them are very emotionally attached to them and rightly so, because they were very groundbreaking when they went into space.
most of them are already dead and gone.
ENGINEERS DID NOT **BUILD IT**. Technicians and craftspersons did! They got NO credit though, as always. No fµking engineer ever built anything. Who constructed the hinges that let the JWST mirrors align perfectly? An engineer? Uh - NO!
@@bivideo7 In reality, the Engineers DESIGNED it, and the CRAFTSMEN & TECHNICIANS who build it pointed out flaws in the design, ushering them back the drawing board until something more suitable was attained
The clickbait picture seems to suggest that V1 travelled huge parts of the milky way but in fact its nowhere and it will take billions of years until it could get somewhere
It’s mind numbing to think it can still send signals back to earth over 15 billion miles away
It's actually crazy...the WHOPPERS these Space-Religion SYCHOPHANTS can conjure up out of their DISEASED, UNBELIEVING minds.
It's actually CRAZY...Boy, the WHOPPERS these Space-Religion SYCHOPHANTS can conjure up from there fantasy-loving minds!
And 15 billion miles is still NOTHING. 40,000 yrs. until the next Star it comes across at 38,000 MPH.
@@ge2623 it’s not possible to comprehend those numbers, lol
My TV can't receive signal from 10 miles away when it's raining
I was 17 when they were launched, I never would've thought they'll outlive me, still sending info till this day and continuing. Amazing machines.
meanwhile, no clear photo of earth, and can't find the flag on the moon
@@ahitler5592 There are quite a few good photos of earth, but sadly we would need a telescope roughly the size of earth to be able to see the flag on the moon
@@ahitler5592Plenty on clear photos of earth. What are you on about!!!
@@ahitler5592i agree. One can argue the cameras are not designed this way that way but then again. If you have Hubble telescope that can take photos of millions of light years away. Just build a fuckin telescope at least to satisfy the doubts of people. Why not show us an HD image of Moon taken from a space telescope or a rover or from earth that shows that flag and any future moon missions live!
Haaaa
Thank God the Interstellar Record was made before modern social media and reality TV.
God? You dare among all these scientific minds. Heresy .
Haha... you are 110% correct... Thank goodness for that.
Yeh, explaining all the modern genders would be a bit of a problem
@@user-ho4nw5sf3wWhat 💀
@@dpfghelaOnly 2 as it always been
The record player just plays “All I want for Christmas is you” by Maria Carey over and over. It keeps the aliens away
When you are on your last breath, reflect on how damn stupid you were for your entire life.
Fortunately, Voyager 1 was launched 17 years before that song was released
Considering that she haven't sang that song yet, I'd say your VERY WRONG.
That's the second best Xmas song and I just listened to it just now
I wonder if one day we'll reach a technological level where a mission will actually fly out, pick the Voyager probes up and bring them back to Earth to put them in a museum.
Doubt it by the time we had that kind of technology if ever, they would be way to far away to ever bee seen by the human eye again.
Nah, we will let them fly, or at the least replace the power supplies and upgrade the instruments so they can continue to be useful. Albeit they ain’t gonna see much now.
@@nuntana2 i like that idea. Retrofit the V1 and V2 with new tech and honor them by essentially reviving them so they can continue their usefulness.
Hope it doesn't come back as "V'ger" looking for its creator..
Okay. Did you eat your moron cereal today? There are no probes out there, the only thing NASA took to space was your imagination.
Its mad to think that after billions of years travelling through Space it will still be in the milky way galaxy .
mind numbing...
Man kind on earth will be gone then. Beyond comprehension.
I was 9 years old when the Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched in 1977, and I remember being excited about it as a kid. I will turn 56 years old in three weeks, and it is unbelievable that the spacecraft is still going and working!
I was 15, and I'm STILL "going and working" but nobody thinks THAT is "unbelievable!" 🤣
This said ...hits me like a ton of bricks..... Voyager 1 and 2 with all the human involvement to build and construct them with all the blood sweat and tears necessary to complete them they will surely outlive humanity tenfold. I'm sitting here dumbfounded after realizing that conception. Holy mother of the Universe. Carl Sagan will live forever😢
Yes
It is only a light day away! It needs to travel 364 x 50 years more to be just one light year away! And the closest stars are around 4 light years away from us... space is so huge, I cyn't even comprehend it 😮
you actually are right. Because it would take us 70000 years to reach our closest star if we would have sent voyager 1 directly towards it.
*can't
Our universe are so biggg, anything beyond our milky way Galaxy are meaningless to me.
noone was talking about anything beyond out galaxy. @@rebelusa6585
A "light day", indeed!
And we flippantly toss around billions of light years.
Dont forget we also have a voyager 2 doing a similar thing ! 📡
No one remembers 2nd place
Shows how very small we are in the universe
Whoa, this is mind blowing and so interesting how and what voyager will continue to see on it's journey. Space is so vast, mysterious, and wonderful all at the same time... Great video!
Think of the tech that can send a signal to Earth a Billion miles away. Made in the 1970s. It makes our cellphones look like a joke.
Good video, I've been following the Voyagers for many years, I was 19 years old when they were launched, and I'm fascinated by their ability to have traveled this far, thanks for posting. Subbed 👍🇺🇸
Wow. I remember that being launched. Thank you. I always wondered. Good stuff, man!!
This was a very interesting video and you don't deserve all of the hateful comments! Some people are just mean for no real reason (criticism is fine, even important, but being mean isn't constructive criticism). Please keep going and don't give up!
Its always been part of the job description!
@@Ventus3 i wouldn't worry about the idiots.
Most of them haven't been to school, i think, judging by their comments
Voyager 1 traveled the distance, that light travels in only 1 day, within almost 50 years; really puts into perspective how fast the light really is.
I've been following news on the Voyagers since they were launched. Still absolutely fascinating!
Very Interesting! Thanks for Posting!
With minimal computing power they made miracles
Soon it will be 50 years in space but another 40k years before it reaches another star! Mind boggling!
Great video! I learned a lot about voyager 1
and overall great video. really informativ in a short period of time :)
nice and like ur video . been following voyagers and thanks for this❤❤❤
Stuff like this is why I think the fermi paradox is dumb. There is no paradox. If life is out there, it would have to travel for an almost incomprehensible amount of time to ever get to us. We should never expect to hear from alien life.
Based on what we know now, maybe that’s true. But 4,000 years ago I’m pretty sure humans didn’t expect to be able to ever send a message halfway around the world in a matter of seconds either.
Its not even a question IF there is life out there. But WHERE, WHAT AND HOW
@@ludapecurka102there’s most certainly microbial life out there somewhere, but I think the OP and myself had intelligent life in mind.
There was some article that came out a couple of years ago that was written I believe some astrophysicist or astronomer and it mentioned that any extraterrestrial life that visits us will likely be robots or AI probes built by some likely extinct alien species. Almost doubt that humans would be able to travel beyond the Solar System because of our nature. We're evolved to live and hunt on the East African Plain of 2 million years ago and that's what our brains and bodies are adapted for. We'd, as a species, be doing things that we're not evolved to do. Living inside the confines of a spaceship for most of your life, living in a space suit (earth-like planets are VERY rare) for whatever planet or moon we visit, everyone on board would have to get along, don't want any narcissists or sociopaths in the crew (everyone would have to be good-natured and care about each other), and the further from Earth or human base we get away from, the longer it would take for communication to travel and hopefully, the spaceship doesn't blow up or something goes wrong or someone onboard goes crazy...you're screwed. But then again, the explorers went through that in the 1500's in the oceans. See where this goes.
@@navyvet05interesting thought. Or like the ISS travelling around the planet every 90 minutes. Unimaginable even 300 yrs ago.
Amazing Bro! 🔥🔥
As for the whole pale blue dot thing...it's even a tiny dot in the sky from Venus or Mars, our next door planets!
New subscriber! Keep going!
A new episode about the vast universe ❤
Wait for the next video 😁
With how much information can be stored today, and how much has happened in the past 50 years, why don't we launch a new Voyager, with all updated music, movies, art, history, and technology?
Great presentation!
This is amazing 😮
Very interesting, thank you.
If something ever listens to that record, and decide to visit, they are going to find a completely different place and probably hightail it back to where they came from.
No need to worry about that gold plated record. Absolutely no one is out there to try and figure out what it is!😊 We are alone in this universe! The almighty God created this wonderful huge expanded we call the universe, and the Bible doesn't say anything about other civilizations or people that are out there. The Bible talks about the earth, and mentions the stars briefly, and that's it.
Bible is bulls#%!
If someone does find it how would they know what it is?
@@thomastaylor6699god is fake.
@@thomastaylor6699The bible is written by humans. We are not alone in the universe, just too far away.
What a powerful video ❤
I love that two of Earth's deep space missions launched when I was in my teens will be cruising through space for possibly billions of years. That is mind blowing. Imagine being one of the people involved in those missions? To think their work could outlast humanity itself. Someday long into the future, an advanced race of beings might find one of these messengers. And the cosmos will know of us.
A golden record. Did anybody think to send a turntable and speakers with it? DOH!
I think it was a CD . Still a lame idea .
Voyager 2 has the turntable and speakers.
Both voyager 1 and 2 have record players built in with a diamond needle and instructions on how to play them
I agree, the whole "golden record" idea seems absurd.
I think v1 actually found the mysterious 10th planet. That’s why Pluto was so rudely demoted…
It's an excellent thing to give us a written translation together with thé oral comentary.I understand 99% of thé explanations!
It doesn’t make any sense to say that it passes by or through constellations. Pass by specific stars sure, but constellations are not actually a structure in space.
Yeah you’re correct that they aren’t actual structures in space, but when we say an object in space “passes through” a constellation we are actually referring to how it appears to move across these patterns from our viewpoint. It’s just a convenient way to describe the movement relative to the patterns even though there is no actual passage through a physical structure if that makes sense.
@@Ventus3 Thank you so much for the video! Not trying to be persnickety about it, but I think that your definition is somewhat misleading.
For instance, I could stand 6 feet away from you, with, say the constellation Orion behind me. And I could walk two steps sideways and "pass through" (move across) Orion from your viewpoint.
Voyager 1 travels at 633 miles a minute, 10.5 miles a second. You'd never even know it if it were to pass you by on the street. You wouldn't ever see a blur.
I'd like to meet the sound/electronic/etc engineers who actually make it possible to hear the Voyageur 1 from 15 (50 in video) billion miles. Truly remarkable, a testament to what man has achieved on Earth.
40.000 years to reach Alpha, the closest star. It is amazing yet at the same time depressing.
They need to build a much faster engine. Even one that goes 10% at the speed of light.
@@2painful2watch10% speed of light is so fast
@@2painful2watch So then it will 'only' be 40 yrs.
@@a-dutch-z7351 Space explorers would need to live on a space ark of sorts. Kind of like in The Star Lost. A 1970's sci-fi series.
@@2painful2watch We need better tech.
I remember when the Voyagers launched.
It will be sad a time when we lose contact with them, either due to equipment failure (TWTAs rock!) or simply path loss of the signals.
[Technically speaking]: It is not like we will "lost all contact" by 2025, but rather it would not be able to perform "useful work" anymore (as a scientist instrument).
. The sensors & 2 of the 3 main computers could be shutdown to save power (then only the transmitter will keep "beeping" towards Earth). This can possible extend its "lifetime" as a mere "beacon" for many decades.
-> It still needs to "listen" from Earth from time to time, to correct any minor deviations on the directionality of its high gain antenna [otherwise it may not be able to "hear" any corrections anymore, hence drifting aimlessly].
My understanding is Golden Record on the Voyagers will last over a Billion years. They both have record players to play the disc. I just hope they didn't forget to put the needle on the players.
Better not scratch them either! 👽
The golden disk has a picture of how to place the needle (stored behind it) and how to move it for it to "play".
-> It even has another picture of a "circle" [the very first image] as how it should be generated (if placed, played & the data processed correctly) by a projector set up in the right resolution format & speed rate [communicated using symbols, measurements of distance & time based on the basic info about the hydrogen atom].
That Jupiter red spot. Bro imagine a storm larger than Earth 😮
You are so underrated bro 😢
Good Job....I mean this Channel...❤
Nice details, keep up
Can you tell in what direction Voyager travels? Sounds like towards centre of Milky Way? I know it can't be seen, but I'm curious where on the night sky it can be?
Wow. Text-to-speech has gotten really good! 😲
It's gotten better. This is still hard to listen to, iyam.
Can we all take a moment to acknowledge that in 1977 they had tech good enough and powerful to 1. Make it receive signals miles in space.
2. Last probably as long as the earth before it degrades.
3. Build it so it still works today and tomorrow.
4.One of if not the best thing we've all done together.
5. We will not never reject it.
6. One of the farthest soon to be litter we've left in space to just float.
7. Be the last thing to really prove we exist.
...Jic
8. And best money we've spent and use of materials.
9. And could turn into v' jer/v'ger
10. If it comes back on the other side shock the very berries right loose from us.
For more content: ... I ain't got nann! Go feed a cat.
The Great Red Spot is where internal heat from Jupiter’s core rises up and reaches the surface I think not from energy from planetary contractions but from some sort of nuclear fusion occurring on the surface of a mostly metallic solid core generating enough heat to also drive the Jovian weather belts.
Those visuals in the video are extremely good can you tell me how can I make those visuals? I'm interested in making space content on CZcams as well.
Crazy to think for how long it’s been traveling that isn’t only 24 light hours away
I wonder how far my balloon has traveled
I fucking love space
After the heat death of the universe, due to the expansion of the universe, it could still continue to roam space without a single other atom or particle within a measurement equal to the radius of our observable universe.
it will be out there long long after we are gone.
The should have included a Ronco Mr. Microphone and a game of Twister.
Nothing like a little existential crisis of how big and endless space is before bed
would a future encounter with intellagent life mean they could calculate VOYEGER 1'S trajectory back to earth
I always wonder what I would be like every single moment if I were at voyage 1 together traveling in the universe endlessly
Great video, superbly explained.
Am I getting this right that the Voyager 1 will continue its trip indefinitely, only by inertia?
Wow, incredible. Thanks for posting this.
I imagine one day we’ll be able to travel faster through space & catch up with Voyager 1 & 2.
So cool, they setup cameras to record videos of Voyager 1 flying by the Saturn!
FYI the OORT cloud from our solar system extends almost to centauri
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Why send 1 voyger into space far away into 1 path exploring our galxy and solar system? How about sending multiple voyagers all around earth explore our galaxy and solar system in a complete sphere shape expansion covering all our surroundings?
There are 2 of them and probably money. Would have been cool though.
It takes a lot of tike and money to built these tho it does sound cool it would probably take a while to build multiple of tgem
Voyagers were accelerated using gravitational assistance of particular planet configuration in our solar system. We can't accelerate it like this anymore in a couple of hundreds years.
We are so alone. There's life out there, but it is so far away it might as well not exist.
Just imagine the havoc that would be wreaked on the evangelicals if we find out we are not alone, and the GOD of another civilization is 1000 times more powerful than any that have been dreamed up here. Hope I'm here to see it.
What direction is it/them traveling? Towards the center or outside our galaxy?
away from the center
Remember the Pioneer 10 and 11. Those probes still move up to this day but unfortunately can't send back signals due to the decay of the RTGs. The last signal was 2003. Both going to Constellation Taurus and Scutum. But the Voyagers overtook them as the farthest human made object.
Am i wrong to call the speed of light the same as the speed of electricity i thinking of the old phone lines that used to run under the oceans to Europe and you would always here a delay in the voice coming in the lines feom Europe
We will catch up with it, and send it "home" to place it in a museum, in about 50-100 years...
LMAO
The universe is so vast. It doesn't make sense to go in the same path and bring back that voyager when there is so much more to explore
I wouldn’t have minded being aboard Voyager. It would be somewhat of a relief to escape from this world.
At this rate, it's gonna take longer for Voyager 1 to reach the next star than it does for me to decide what to watch on Netflix
The most overwhelming thing is the fact that we can still communicate with the satellites over a distance of 24 billion kilometers. Consider that the transmission power of the satellite is not much more than that of a smartphone.
AI voices are cringe
And lazy af
I agree. And not just because I'm a real-life voiceover artist ;)
This one is good
@jameskvo
OK so explain what is “Cringe” about this Voice over.
Be Specific.
SO ! .
What of it eventually crashes into some wall?
Mind blowing considering it was developed and launched way back in the 1960s 🤔
Except..... 70's. 🤔
The more likely event is that we'll eventually build ships fast enough to catch the voyagers.
They don't know how far it can travel - thanks for an obviously ChatGBT inspired monologue...
Yes no one can predict where it will be but with 100% certainty but we can predict how far it will travel if nothing happens to it with very simple math
Very interesting video ! The on-board computer is only 69,63kb ! And sending commands and info to us is a miracle ! Our cellphones today are easily 10k times faster and better ! So, i wonder how computing will be in 5 decades !
Wondering will survive that’s long of earth life cycles too ?
Haha the red spot always reminded me of an egg yoke. Perhaps there is some connection between the two and how they work.
maybe the age old riddle is somewhere in it, which came first...
How disappointing it would be if it travelled 100 billion miles just to crash into a meteor or some other celestial body.
Equally disappointing would be if it were never found by another civilization.
@@Swervin309Or, to be found by a civilization that is made up of only dinosaurs.
@@cappyjones Chicago? LOL
Or will land on gold eating creatures civilisation and plate will be eaten like cookie
Actually not. It means that every instance of life on this planet is totally unique, and should be respected as such. The implications are we'd better start doing a lot better at looking after our home and our fellow travellers - each and every one of us is precious and unique in the universe.@@Swervin309
Maybe one day, it will crash land into someone's backyard on earth with a note that says: Return to Sender.
That's one hell of a battery
Amazing because technology on the Voyagers are from the 70s. Both Voyagers were Blasted off the same year Elvis Presley passed.
people always show what it would be like to travel at the speed of light to cross our galaxy detailing how long it would take to leave , but they never say how long it would take to leave the galaxy if we went perpendicular to the layout of the disc pattern and just went UP. how quickly would we have an arial view of the galaxy ?
The milky ways galaxy is approximately 100,000 light years in diameter, but only 1000 light years thick. Voyager 1 travels at 38,000 MPH and it would take around 18,000 years to go one light year… so to travel just the thickness of the milky way it would take around 18 Million years but than you’d have to travel another 10 to 15 million years to see the whole thing as it’s over 100,000 light years wide.
Edit: Fun fact… If you could travel the speed of light, you could pass the entire voyager 1 total distance in 21 hours. 🤯
They are both returning home for updates
I remember when it blasted off I was 14 and a freshman in high school.
Beyond comprehension!
What if the conditions in space actually directed Voyager back to Earth ? I'd laugh my socks off .
ASTRONOMY IS MIND BLOWING!!!!!!!
why voyager 1 on his travel, never been hit by another object like meteorite ? did it have a sensor to evade meteorite ?
Objects in space and even our solar system are so incredibly far apart from each other that the odds of it actually hitting something are very small.
Wouldn’t it be strange if it suddenly appeared coming into our galaxy the other way
Sorta like a man made comet but it would have to grow a tail first.
It's possible 🤗
Basically Star Trek The Motion Picture
@@dr-doctor-1992
On its way back to sterilise the earth
You mean voyager coming back to our solar system?
If the thumbnail for this video were accurate, Voyager would have been traveling at about the speed of light for about 25 thousand years.
I have a question and please people don't be irritated because I know very little about space. Maybe I'm wrong but from what I've learned is that at the core of our galaxy there's a black hole that's pulling everything in the milky way towards it in a spiral trajectory. How come the Voyager's trajectory is pulling them away from this strong magnetic "field" of the black hole? Aren't these Voyagers supposed to be traveling towards the black hole?
For the very same reason our sun and planets aren't being drawn to this central galactic black hole....because we are revovling AROUND it. I SHOULD know, for I am BHE!