Message to Voyager 1
Beta Beta: not reviewed yet, and there is no video for this one.
Press send and a radio signal leaves Earth at the speed of light. Watch how long it takes to reach the farthest spacecraft we have.
- Distance from Earth
- Loading.
- One-way light time
- Elapsed
- Not sent yet
- Remaining
Speed
The scale is stretched: each step right is ten times farther than the last, so the Moon and planets stay visible. The bar below shows the true share of the trip.
Positions: NASA JPL Horizons. Orbit sizes: NASA Planetary Fact Sheets. Speed of light: 299,792.458 km/s.