You traveled one light day.
49 years of silent flight.
24+ billion kilometers traversed.
The greatest exploratory voyage in human history.
Yet, the nearest star, Alpha Centauri...
Is still over 4.24 light-years away.
Humanity has barely stepped outside its front door.
Waiting to receive transmission from the next galaxy...
Safe travels explorer.
Perspective
Scale of the Cosmos
VOYAGER 1
1 Light Day
Tiny sliver of space
49 years of travel at 17.0 km/s
ALPHA CENTAURI
1,547 Light Days
1,547 times farther than Voyager's lifetime path
≈ 4.24 Light Years (Nearest Star)
Voyager Museum Exhibit
The Golden Legacy of Exploration
Mission Climax
Voyager 1 Encounter
Keep scrolling to approach the probe...
Still traveling...
Most of space is empty.
The Sun is becoming another star.
No human has ever gone this far.
Voyager 1 is still ahead.
Historical Milestone — February 14, 1990
The Pale Blue Dot
EARTH • 0.12 pixel
NASA/JPL Voyager 1 Original Remaster
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives... on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam." — Carl Sagan
4.5 Billion Kilometers
Neptune
2.9 Billion Kilometers
Uranus
1.4 Billion Kilometers
Saturn
778 Million Kilometers
Jupiter
Asteroid Belt — Space is 99.999% Empty
150 Million Kilometers
Mars
1.5 Million Kilometers
James Webb Space Telescope
384,400 Kilometers
The Moon
"Light from Earth reaches here in only 1.3 seconds."
36,000 Kilometers
Geostationary Orbit
A synchronized highway of active communications and weather satellites matching Earth's rotation perfectly.
20,000 Kilometers
GPS Satellites
Sailing in medium orbit, transmitting continuous atomic-time pulses that synchronize humanity's positions.
400 Kilometers
International Space Station
Kármán Line — 100 km (Edge of Space)
12 - 50 Kilometers
Upper Atmosphere
Cruising beneath the ozone layer as the skies darken and stars begin appearing.
Troposphere / Cloud Layer
ONE LIGHT DAY
Travel one light day with Voyager 1.
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