• Question: how far out into space has a saterlite or spaceship gone into space

    Asked by sebbubble to Alexander, Josh, Serena, Simone, Stuart on 20 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Stuart Archer

      Stuart Archer answered on 20 Jun 2013:

      The furthest any object has gone into space is the Voyager 1 space probe – it’s currently 18.6 billion kilometers from earth (that’s about 125 times the distance from the Earth to the Sun!)

    • Photo: Josh Makepeace

      Josh Makepeace answered on 20 Jun 2013:

      When Voyager 1 got to 6 billion km from Earth, a scientist called Carl Sagan suggested to turn its camera around and take a phot of Earth from all that way away. What the picture turned out like was a tiny blue dot in a sea of darkness. I find it a really inspring picture to remind me of how lucky I am to be here! 😀

      Here’s a video I like that talks about the photo, and our place in the Universe. Check it out!

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