Posted on 07/13/2024 12:40:14 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: In 1990, cruising four billion miles from the Sun, the Voyager 1 spacecraft looked back to make this first ever Solar System family portrait. The complete portrait is a 60 frame mosaic made from a vantage point 32 degrees above the ecliptic plane. In it, Voyager's wide-angle camera frames sweep through the inner Solar System at the left, linking up with ice giant Neptune, the Solar System's outermost planet, at the far right. Positions for Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are indicated by letters, while the Sun is the bright spot near the center of the circle of frames. The inset frames for each of the planets are from Voyager's narrow-field camera. Unseen in the portrait are Mercury, too close to the Sun to be detected, and Mars, unfortunately hidden by sunlight scattered in the camera's optical system. Closer to the Sun than Neptune at the time, small, faint Pluto's position was not covered. In 2024 Voyager 1, NASA’s longest-running and most-distant spacecraft, is some 15 billion miles away, operating in interstellar space.
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Meh
I fell asleep trying to comprehend what I was looking at
It really brings out the blue in my eyes...
That really puts everything into perspective and makes it all make sense. Anyway, vice president Trump is completely qualified to be president and where the hell is my ice cream?
It looks a little bit disfunctional…
Old name: Jupiter - new name: Jupitrans
Old name: Saturn - new name: Satrans
Old name: Uranus - new name: Urtranus
Old name: Neptune - new name: Neptrans
Old name: Mercury - new name: Merqueery
Old name: Venus - new name: hmmm. any ideas, folks?
This could be a major campaign issue.
Trans Neptunian Objects need no name change for the time being.
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