That’s pretty cool.
Too bad we don’t have a probe that can stop and hang out for a while as opposed to one travelling 14000 MPH past the thing.
What is the one heading to Pluto, New Horizons?
Let me check.......
Yup, From NASA.gov...
In 2006, NASA dispatched an ambassador to the planetary frontier: The New Horizons spacecraft, now more than halfway between Earth and Pluto, is on approach for a dramatic flight past the icy dwarf planet and its moons in July 2015....
Another flyby.
I understand the speed these things are traveling at but it’s too bad that after all it took to get there that we cannot or will not put something into orbit around these outer planets.
Serious question: How far away can these explorers get but we are still able to receive the images? They must be sent as radio waves, microwaves, etc. but without repeaters spaced out along the way what is the max range? It just seems hard to believe that something can be billions of miles away and we can still receive a signal from it.