Voyager Space Probe

Because earth moves around the sun faster than voyager 1 is speeding away from the inner solar system the distance between earth and the spacecraft actually decreases at certain times of year.
Voyager space probe. This is a real time indicator of voyager 1 s distance from earth in astronomical units au and either miles mi or kilometers km. Voyager 1 discovered a thin ring around jupiter and two new jovian moons. Nasa s voyager 1 spacecraft has reached yet another milestone in its journey into deep space outside of our solar system by crossing a threshold of 150 astronomical units au from the sun. It originally was launched along with voyager 2 in 1977 to explore the outer planets in our.
At a distance of about 11 billion miles from earth voyager 2 is well beyond the orbit of pluto. Voyager 1 was the first spacecraft to cross the heliosphere the boundary where the influences outside our solar system are stronger than those from our sun. Continuing on their over 40 year journey since their 1977 launches they each are much farther away from earth and the sun than pluto. Voyager 1 is a space probe that was launched by nasa on september 5 1977.
Part of the voyager program to study the outer solar system voyager 1 was launched 16 days after its twin voyager 2. Voyager 2 is only the second spacecraft to travel this far out into the solar system. The twin voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft are exploring where nothing from earth has flown before.