NASA’s Voyager may carry human artifacts into the cosmos for trillions of years - Inverse

6/4/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 10 months ago
by James Edward Huchingson, The Conversation
by James Edward Huchingson, The Conversation
Both Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, carry little pieces of humanity in the form of their Golden Records. A recent analysis suggests they may persist for trillions of years.
Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. After sweeping by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, it is now almost 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth in interstellar … [+5780 chars]
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