sattellite/probe

[ObscuredbyClouds]

Ok what im trying to find out is

1.which is the furthest sat/probe ?

2.roughly how many miles/lightyears maybe is it from earth and is it still continuing

Im not very good at maths and my pc blows up with numbers

[JB80]

Voyager 1 followed by Voyager 2.

You can follow them here and it tells you it's exact distance from Earth and the Sun.

http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/where/index.html

At the time of posting this Voyager 1 is nearly 18,000,000,000kms from Earth.

[brianw1]

Heavens-above also have details about satellites leaving the solar system:

http://www.heavens-above.com/SolarEscape.aspx?lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=CET

[ObscuredbyClouds]

Voyager 1 followed by Voyager 2.

You can follow them here and it tells you it's exact distance from Earth and the Sun.

http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/where/index.html

At the time of posting this Voyager 1 is nearly 18,000,000,000kms from Earth.

thanks very much for that, is that 18 billion ?

It was a discussion last night and we were trying to work out how many light years that would be if any ?

As you can probably gather maths is not my strongest point lol

Converted that 18000000000000 into light years and came an answer of 0.0019026015012443076

So is that saying its nowhere near a light year ?

Dont understand long numbers lol

[britchall]

It's roughly 1/500th of a light year or 16.64 light hours.

[ObscuredbyClouds]

It's roughly 1/500th of a light year or 16.64 light hours.

thankyou

[JamesF]

The linked web page actually gives you the round-trip time for light to the object from the sun which is probably good enough for us as well. Voyager 1 is almost 33 hours 14 light minutes for a round trip, so 16 hours 37 light minutes one way.

I assume it will be constantly moving away from the Sun, but the gap relative to the earth may open and close depending on where we are in our orbit relative to it.

James