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50 years of space exploration - infographic (i.imgur.com)

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[–]aardmark 31 points32 points ago

This is weird but does anyone kind of get a little sad thinking about Voyager 1. It left in 1977. It's still operating and sending us data on a one way mission to see just how far it can go. While it's just a machine it saddens me to think that it's on a one way journey never to return again.

[–]adipy 22 points23 points ago

Well we might catch up with it eventually!

It's only 16,5 'light-hours' away from us.

Voyager 1 needs 14.000 years to cover 1lightyear of distance. So it's not really that fast (I think).

We'll never see it back, but maybe in a few thousand years voyager 1 will return to earth (or the location we'll be at by that point) somehow.

[–]feureau 2 points3 points ago

maybe in a few thousand years voyager 1 will return to earth (or the location we'll be at by that point) somehow.

Has this been calculated? Is it even possible at current trajectory?

[–]virtyy 12 points13 points ago

He means maybe in a thousand years we will be able to travel so fast that we will catch up to him in no time and return him.

[–]adipy 10 points11 points ago

I really need to be more specific in my wording..

What he said

[–]Pfaffgod 0 points1 point ago

I understood what you said. But I'm just weird

[–]Get72ready 2 points3 points ago

I would like to think we will go get it someday. If you want to turn the optimism to 10, it would be nice to put it in the Smithsonian.

[–]Just_another_man -2 points-1 points ago

How does that work out? Voyager 1 has been travelling since 1977, and it is only 16.5 lighthours away? But then you said it takes Voyager 14 years to travel 1 lightyear. So shouldn't it be 2.5 light years away by now, as it has been 35 years since departure?

[–]cungsyu 3 points4 points ago

14.000 = 14k, so 14 000 years, I think is what adipy meant. Although perhaps they should have said 16,5 light-hours, or used either decimal/significant figure notation consistently...

[–]Just_another_man 3 points4 points ago

Welp. I look stupid. I thought he was just being oddly specific about the 14 years.

[–]EdricStorm 0 points1 point ago

It's a non-english speaking thing, usually. They use decimals where we use commas and vice versa. I didn't catch on and was confused at his expanded notation for a while until I realized what was up lol

[–]adipy 0 points1 point ago

fixed... yeah not really my brightest move to use . as both decimal/significant figure

[–]lovekr08 1 point2 points ago

14,000 years to go 1 light year, 73,000 years to get to nearest star.

Its not traveling very fast.

If you could travel at the speed of light, it would be 16.5 hours away.

[–]HALF_BONER 0 points1 point ago

Science is incredible.

[–]correct_spelling -3 points-2 points ago

*we

*catch

[–]adipy 0 points1 point ago

I'd rather pitch if you're OK with it.

[–]donkeydizzle 8 points9 points ago

We lay in wait for V'ger.

[–]TopNotch37 5 points6 points ago

Well this is just a machine, they basically did this with an animal in 1957. Laika

[–]IncidentOn57thStreet 3 points4 points ago

...the first animal to orbit the Earth

:'D

as well as the first animal to die in orbit.

D':

[–]CoffinRehersal 1 point2 points ago

What a lucky dog.

[–]hotsauceholocaust 0 points1 point ago

The whole article seems so fitting with stereotypical Russian thinking:

Laika was found as a stray wandering the streets of Moscow. Soviet scientists chose to use Moscow strays since they assumed that such animals had already learned to endure conditions of extreme cold and hunger.

and by stereotypical I mean harsh but practical.

[–]correct_spelling -1 points0 points ago

*basically

[–]kurtkaboom 0 points1 point ago

After seeing Voyager 1 personified in this video, I feel you!

[–]ScubaPlays 0 points1 point ago

I like to think of it as a brave adventurer.

[–]kompiler 0 points1 point ago

Perhaps after the most epic trillion year journey through deep space, dodging comets, supernovas and black holes, Voyager I will crash land on a remote rocky planet inhabited by a primitive cave-dwelling creatures who'll find it, gaze at it with wonder ...then promptly put its radio dishes to work as frying pans.

[–]greenman8 26 points27 points ago

First craft to approach Uranus. Heh heh.

[–]ElbartoVienna 6 points7 points ago

Came here to post this. Apparently we are 12 years old. :-)

[–]petorius 0 points1 point ago

The ring on Uranus looks quite large.

[–]adipy 1 point2 points ago

I can see Uranus from Mianus! (warning 2 pixels)

[–]badnote 8 points9 points ago

please clarify for me.. The U.S has landed 6 manned missions on the moon, so how can there be only two successful NASA missions? I'm a bit confused.

[–]Osiris32 3 points4 points ago

It's not a very good infographic. In fact the number of successful missions to the Moon that NASA has done is a lot higher than two. The Ranger probes, the Surveyor program, a bunch of Pioneer missions, plus 9 successful lunar orbit or landing missions with Apollo, and many more.

[–]Simon_the_Cannibal 2 points3 points ago

It doesn't say 'only two'; it's just pointing out that those colors are successful US missions (you'll note the band of 9 or so US successes with one US failure color?).

Still, though, this is not that great of an infographic. Pretty picture, sure, but yeah.

[–]irrelevanttointerest 1 point2 points ago

For some reason the infographic has a number of keys and text fields blacked out. It's even blacked out on national geographic's website. Here is a lower res image (presumably a scan from the magazine) with that information, including a color key that explains what each line color represents. http://i.imgur.com/LVEgL.jpg

[–]JunkintheBattleTrunk 5 points6 points ago

TIL There were missions to the Sun!

[–]splittrain 4 points5 points ago

It looks like the legend (blacksquare on bottom right) was photoshopped from the original. I wonder where it is..

[–]irrelevanttointerest 0 points1 point ago

Even the national geographic website has it blacked out for some reason. The legend and other information walls of text can be seen here, unfortunately at a lower resolution. http://i.imgur.com/LVEgL.jpg

[–]ravag3 3 points4 points ago

Source? Would like to try track down a higher resolution copy...

[–]SugarPlatypus 3 points4 points ago

I dragged this over to google images, and after looking in a few different places, I believe this is the highest resolution there is. Here it is on flickr, as well, for different size options. http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcrowe/4002050596/sizes/o/in/photostream/

[–]puttheremoteinherbut 0 points1 point ago

Explain what you mean, sir? You dragged it over to google images?

[–]parasiteartist 6 points7 points ago

Go to google image search page, drag and drop a picture into the search bar and it will look up the image. You can then refine the search by typing descriptions into the bar.

[–]Ultimate_Timmeh 1 point2 points ago

You can litterally literally drag images in the google images search bar to search for every instance of that image in particular. Very useful for finding high resolution pictures of something.

[–]correct_spelling -1 points0 points ago

*literally

[–]Ultimate_Timmeh 1 point2 points ago

Yes, quite.

[–]fweee 1 point2 points ago

I had seen this in a National Geographic space special. Came as a pull out poster.

[–]udontneedme 4 points5 points ago

Just one word..... AWESOME !!!! Saving the picture and print it as poster : )

[–]CoffinRehersal 3 points4 points ago

Unfortunately, whoever posted this doesn't understand technology so they saved it as a jpg file. If you're serious I'd find a copy of the image that hasn't been compressed to shit.

[–]udontneedme 1 point2 points ago

Oh man if you could find a better copy you would make me more than happy !!!!!! : ) Indeed the actual copy is not that great...... Thanks in advance mate .

[–]udontneedme 1 point2 points ago

If you get me a great copy that could be professionally printed poster size I would be willing to make a print for you and send it to you as a gift : )

[–]CoffinRehersal 0 points1 point ago

Unfortunately, TinEye only comes up with more JPEG results. When I get home from work I'll look a little deeper. There has to be a better version out there.

[–]raporteur 0 points1 point ago

this seems to be the best that there is http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/yqqsz/50_years_of_space_exploration_infographic/c5y1it9

[–]Fakk 3 points4 points ago

It's weird to think there has only been one mission to ... Uranus

[–]SirBizzyD 0 points1 point ago

What was found, was not for meant for mortal eyes to witness.

[–]markhewitt1978 1 point2 points ago

It's sad that every_goddam_time someone mentions space that joke is made.

[–]Fakk 1 point2 points ago

Yes we are all crying ourselves to sleep.

[–]Zyxil 0 points1 point ago

Farnsworth: I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all..

Fry: Oh. What's it called now?

Farnsworth: Urectum.

[–]stoned_geologist 3 points4 points ago

I wish Pluto was still a planet! :,(

[–]alexyork3d 2 points3 points ago

Accuracy > Fantasy.

[–]MrQuantumE 1 point2 points ago

Does anyone have a 1920x1080 version?

[–]chichicork 1 point2 points ago

Imagine where we'll be in another 50 years...Hopefully a lot of these missions pictured will be manned missions and not robots.

[–]emperor000 2 points3 points ago

Just a lot more lines in pretty much the same places.

[–]Maraboduus 1 point2 points ago

On one side, this graphic representation is pretty cool. But for people who don't know anything about how space exploration works it seems to be so confusing.

Could just be me though.

[–]romanticegotist 0 points1 point ago

One of those times where I'm happy about a repost because I lost the link and was looking for this anyway!

[–]richworks 0 points1 point ago

9 missions to the Sun?

[–]cmon_now 0 points1 point ago

Love shit like this

[–]alexyork3d 0 points1 point ago

Would anyone be so kind as to point to a high-res of this? I'd really like to print a copy and stick it up in my son's bedroom if the creator wouldn't mind!

[–]ronintetsuro 0 points1 point ago

Am I reading this right? Is there a consistent loss of communication with devices as they pass Jupiter?

[–]MalHeartsNutmeg 1 point2 points ago

Why have there been so few trips to Mercury? Is it just not very interesting or what?

[–]CopperAlbatross 0 points1 point ago

TIL no one gives a shit about Mercury.

[–]Sweedo -2 points-1 points ago

WTF? This is missing all the space and moon missions from Denmark and Sweden. Why is that?

[–]Nicoon 0 points1 point ago

Probably because there are none. We're not launch capable, we instead piggyback off ESA (of which we are a founding member).

[–]Sweedo -1 points0 points ago

Have you been watching Fox News? Sweden, Denmark and Norway are the greatest nations on the planet, therefore, we also have the most powerful space program. Americans like to claim they were first on the moon.

The truth is Nils Rassmuuseen was the first person on the moon.

[–]Nicoon 0 points1 point ago

Ah, I see. You're trolling.

[–]santaklausnomi 1 point2 points ago

Can someone explain the missions to the sun a little?

[–]IcyColdFire 0 points1 point ago

Someone should make a subreddit for infographics. I love these!

[–]Rebootkid 0 points1 point ago

Anyone else wondering what was in the blacked-out square in the lower-right quadrant of the image?

There used to be something there that someone (poorly) shopped out.

[–]bodiez 0 points1 point ago

This infographic got me interested in the Voyager 1. I am absolutely blown away. Been traveling since 1977!! Still transmits data back to earth. This technology came from a time where computers were massive still, and this little spacecraft is still on the cutting edge. Unreal stuff NASA does.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1

[–]stickyourshtick 1 point2 points ago

this should somehow be retailed as a poster!

[–]Decyde -1 points0 points ago

It's just like Uranus to only get explored once then get shut down on future exploration missions.

[–]FreeK200 0 points1 point ago

If I'm not mistaken, it turned out to be a pretty crappy mission.

[–]Zyxil 0 points1 point ago

It was really dark there, out where the sun don't shine.

[–]ringforrohan 0 points1 point ago

Looking at this infographic reminds me of Carl Sagan :D

[–]tsunamibird -1 points0 points ago

Kickass.

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