Pale Blue Dot - Distance

Distance

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's HORIZONS web interface system provides a web-based limited interface to its HORIZONS system which can be used to generate ephemerides for solar-system bodies. According to this tool, the distances between Voyager and the Earth on February 14, 1990 and June 9, 1990 were as follows: a

Distance of the Voyager 1 Spacecraft from Earth
Unit of Measurement February 14, 1990 June 9, 1990
Astronomical Units 40.4722269111071 40.6835761263791
Kilometres 6,054,558,968 6,086,176,360
Miles 3,762,136,324 3,781,782,502

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