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Daily Quiz | On Voyager 1, journey of interstellar pioneer 1 / 6 | What does this image show? Answer : It is a photo of Earth taken by Voyager 1 in 1990 from 3.7 billion miles away, showing Earth as a tiny dot. Carl Sagan dubbed it the ‘Pale Blue Dot’ and used it to reflect…
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NASA’s 47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft recently established contact with Earth after a brief halt with the help of a radio transmitter that has not been used since 1981. NASA engineers at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California re-established contact with the spacecraft on October 24. The spacecraft, which is in interstellar space over 15 billion…
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