Two decades before it notched that milestone, however, Voyager 1 took one of the most iconic photos in spaceflight history. On Feb. 14, 1990, the probe turned back toward Earth and snapped an image of its home planet from 3.7 billion miles (6 billion km) away. The photo shows Earth as...
The photo of me frowning outside the town of Coyote in New Mexico, was taken when I was trying to work out where the hell to locate one of the only truly fictional places in the book – Big Sun Canyon. America’s Southwest is a patchwork of sites sacred to the local Native American...
Which of the following statements is true about the photo of Earth taken by Voyager 1? A. It was taken by Carl Sagan. B. It was the last photo taken by Voyager 1. C. The photo makes Earth seem small. D. It is a photo of great scientific value.( D )2. What is the most ...
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Voyager 1 is moving north (relative to the orientation of Earth out of the solar system), while Voyager 2 is moving south. In 2007, they both entered the heliosheath, the outermost section of the solar system. There, the solar wind meets interstellar magnetic fields and forms a boundary ...
[Photo Timeline: Voyager 1's Trek to Interstellar Space] This density was much higher than that observed in the outer layers of the heliosphere, allowing team members to conclude that Voyager 1 had entered a new cosmic realm. (Instellar space is emptier than areas near Earth, but the solar...
aTop:An artist's impression of one of the Voyager spacecraft . Center:One 0f the thousands of thousands of detailed photos of Jupiter sent to Earth by the Galileo orbiter . Bottom:Galileo took this close-up photo of the giant ice floes that cover the surface Jupiter’s large moon,Europa...
The kit has a clear blue display stand with a silhouette of the continents on the exposed hemisphere to represent Earth. When I was unpacking this kit for taking pictures, there was something wrapped up in white paper with the wire and the blue stand. It was the gold-plated styrene part ...
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Both Voyager spacecraft have achieved far more than the science team on Earth could have ever expected. Launched in 1977, theirprime missionwas to investigate the four giant planets of oursolar system: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. ...