Voyager 2 I am currently ~19h 20m 25s of light travel time from Earth (2025:074:000000:2L) 
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The first thing to note is that the plot lines have different vertical axes! .
2/ …While the times are offset, the scale is the same.If you plot both these times on a single vertical scale, you can barely see the sinusoidal shape. Remember: green with green, blue with blue.
OK, why is there this shape? …
3/ Because the distance measurements are being made from a moving platform: Earth. The sinusoidal variance is because of Earth’s orbit around the Sun. At certain times of year, the Earth is moving towards the Voyagers faster than they are leaving, so the distance decreases. …
4/ Why are they offset from each other? The Voyagers took very different paths out of the Solar System. V1 left after its Saturn encounter, while V2 chased down Uranus and Neptune, traveling farther around the ~plane of the planets’ orbits. …
5/ That’s why V2’s interesting points are ‘farther along in time.’ We can also see that V1 is traveling faster than V2: it makes much more progress each year. Why? Because V2’s last encounter (with Neptune), slowed it down significantly. …
6/ The different angles involved between the spacecraft, the Earth, and the Sun are responsible for the precise shapes we see. …
7/ I have also labeled the change in source for the times posted. Sharp eyed viewers may note the slight offset between DSN and HORIZONS times - due to an offset in the observation time HORIZONS used.
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- #description :: The twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft are exploring where nothing from Earth has flown before. Continuing on their more-than-40-year journey since their 1977 launches, they each are much farther away from Earth and the sun than Pluto. In August 2012, Voyager 1 made the historic entry into interstellar space, the region between stars, filled with material ejected by the death of nearby stars millions of years ago. Voyager 2 entered interstellar space on November 5, 2018 and scientists hope to learn more about this region. Voyager 1 & 2 on YOUTUBE - @nasa-jpl Voyager 1 reached interstellar space in August 2012 and is the most distant human-made object in existence. MissionWebsitE PARSE
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Voyager 2 I am currently ~19h 20m 25s of light travel time from Earth (2025:074:000000:2L) @nasa @Team-Cartographer @blackgirlscode
I am currently ~19h 20m 25s of light travel time from Earth (2025:074:000000:2L)
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