Behind the Pictures: Top 10 Voyager Facts By Robert Roy Britt Senior Science Writer posted: 07:00 am ET 20 August 2002
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Outta Here!
As of March 2002, Voyager 1 was 7.7 billion miles (12.4 billion kilometers)
from the Sun. That's 84 times the distance from Earth to the Sun. It's the farthest
(known) human thing, and it takes about 23 hours for a radio signal, moving
at the speed of light, to make the round-trip. The craft adds more than 3 Earth-Sun
distances to the separation every year as it continues to speed away.