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OT-Trivia, farthest a photo has ever been
Erik Markov, Photographer
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Kokomo | IN | | Posted: 12:26 AM on 10.09.09 |
->> Interesting piece of astronaut trivia I had never heard before, http://tinyurl.com/yfekzpj.
Astronaut Charles Duke took a photo of his family on the '72 Apollo mission and left it on the moon. Was something I had never heard of. Guess it would still be there, or at least until 7:30am this morning when NASA blows the moon up.
Guess I have no excuse for forgetting photos now.
"Oh darn, I forgot to bring that cf card of images from home into the office. Well, I'm not going back,
IT'S TOO FAR." uhh yeah, right. |
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Kevin Seale, Photographer
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Crawfordsville | IN | United States | Posted: 1:22 AM on 10.09.09 |
| ->> Interesting article Erik, thanks for posting. If digital images count then I think the Voyager crafts would be the leader. If I remember correctly from science class they included a variety of digitized images on a record. |
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Alan Stewart, Photographer
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Corydon | IN | USA | Posted: 11:49 AM on 10.09.09 |
->> Okay ... color me a full shade of geek'dom ...
Kevin brings up an excellent point regarding the analog images contained on the golden record on Voyager 1. But then it hits me that the moon is orbiting our planet.
So which has traveled further since V1 was launched in 1977: the moon, or V1 itself?
Unfortunately I don't know the distance the moon travels upon one orbit, but I know it takes 23.7 days. And according to heavens-above.com, V1 is 111.340 AU away (if my math is correct that's 10,390,414,195 miles) from Earth right now. This could be interesting ... |
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Mark Loundy, Photo Editor
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San Jose | CA | USA | Posted: 11:54 AM on 10.09.09 |
->> Alan,
It's an endless exercise. Since we're talking about Voyager's distance from the Sun, perhaps we should be calculating the Moon's curlicue path around the Earth-Sun. Good luck with that.
--Mark |
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Adam Vogler, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Kansas City | Mo. | USA | Posted: 2:01 PM on 10.09.09 |
->> don't forget the Sun's travel around the center of the Milky Way and the Milky Way's movement as the Universe expands.
MMMMNNN, Milky Way, excuse me while I travel to the vending machine in the break room. |
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Kevin Seale, Photographer
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Crawfordsville | IN | United States | Posted: 3:09 PM on 10.09.09 |
->> Here is what I came up with in my it's raining today and I am bored exercise.
As of May 2008, V1 was traveling at a speed of 38,400 mph relative to the sun. The moon orbits the earth at an average speed of 2,288 mph and the earth/moon orbits the sun at an average speed of 67,062 mph.
However, V1 already had the earth/moon velocity when it launched so if it travels in a straight line away from the sun/earth it will still take the same duration to orbit the sun but it's orbit (distance) around the sun will be considerably greater so it's speed (distance/duration) around the sun considerably greater. Granted, it did not travel in a straight line away and was "thrown" by the gravity of other plants as it passed them, it is still the same general idea.
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/science/heliocentric.html
So, if I understand it correctly, V1 is moving away from the earth at a much greater velocity than the moon is going around it and both are orbiting the sun in relatively the same duration with V1 traveling a much greater orbital distance. Since the earth, moon, sun and V1 are all orbiting the Milky Way together it becomes closer to being a constant that a significant variable.
My bother is a physics professor so have sent him this nerd based discussion for input. I am also going to ask him to calculate the velocity of the gator killing bullet in relation to the center of the universe. :-) |
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Landon Finch, Photographer
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Colorado Springs | CO | USA | Posted: 4:31 PM on 10.09.09 |
| ->> The OP assumes that we really did go to the moon ;-p |
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Gary Mills, Photographer
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Culver | IN | USA | Posted: 6:21 PM on 10.09.09 |
| ->> If that photo had been on train headed west from NYC going 55 mph, I could tell you when it would meet a train that left LA headed east going 40 mph, but this question is too cosmic for me. |
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