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
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“For time is the longest distance between two places.”
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At a short distance like a hundred miles
Filling the air with its secrecy,
And was afraid of all the living air....”
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