Top 5 Farthest Things Humans Sent into Space

Can you guess the top 5 FARTHEST OBJECTS humans have sent into space?

Number 5 is 8.7 billion kilometers away. It's called New Horizons, launched in 2006 to explore Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.

Number 4 is 16 billion km away, called Pioneer 11 and launched in 1973. It was the first spacecraft to visit Saturn! But now it’s signal can’t reach us anymore.

Number 3 is 20 billion km away Pioneer 10. It was the first spacecraft to reach Jupiter!

Number 2 is Voyager 2, it just overtook Pioneer 10 this year!

And in first place….

We’re apes on a rock, sending little probes out into the universe, exploring more and more and there’s still SO MUCH left to explore!

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[RazzleberryHaze]

Fun fact: even after all its years traveling, Voyager 1 still isn't even one light day away from us. It takes about 45 hours to get a response from it, meaning that it's almost 23 light hours away

[joerusson]

The manhole cover: “look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power”

[turnleft]

"Apes on a rock sending probes"

Zeke: *hold your horses now*

[Instantout]

If you Ever feel alone. Remember you can never be as alone as Voyager 1.

[mariomaniac]

The crazy thing is that Voyager is still sending back valuable data, and NASA can actually remotely update its software here from earth, as we've seen with a recent patch done to restore telemetry readouts. It just takes a long time for the updates to reach that far away since we're limited by the speed of light.

[twylanaythias]

It's bizarre to realize that I'm possibly the last person alive to have seen Voyager I with their own eyes.

My grandfather was a key behind-the-scenes player with Project Trinity and had all sorts of connections with people from various government agencies. (He was eventually a general manager at the PanTex Federal Munitions Facility.) He was fascinated by space and took me all sorts of places throughout the 1970s - Meteor Crater, the White Sands Proving Grounds, and JPL in Pasadena just to name a few locations.

It's been half a century, so some details have grown fuzzy, but I remember us being guided to (what I believe was) a conference room - it had a huge window that looked out over a warehouse-like operations floor. There sat Voyager 1, being worked on by a handful of people, doing some final work on the spacecraft as they prepared it for transport to Florida. I don't recall the specific date but it was likely mid-August 1977, as Voyager 2 was no longer there but it hadn't yet been launched.

While I obviously wasn't THE last person to actually see Voyager 1, everyone else was decades older and most (if not all) of them have since passed away. Even if we develop advanced space travel and set out with the specific goal of meeting up with Voyager 1 in its travels, it's unlikely that we would ever be able to find it in the vast ocean of outer space.

There's just something both impressive and unsettling about knowing that you've seen something which no other human being alive has ever seen, and likely no human being in the future will ever see.

[JMT]

Mrbeast in 2069:
"Today we are sending 100 million people to the Andromeda

[ScotchBonnetHand_]

In 2022 we launched a satellite at an asteroid to see if we can change its trajectory. Basically the dinosaurs struck back. 😅

[Kuygg]

I thought the farthest thing away from earth was my dad.

[xkingkerrx]

When people wonder why aliens haven’t visited us, videos like this makes you realise our best efforts for communications barely extend outside the solar system and there’s a whole universe out there

[arkadejones]

"Apes on a Rock"

That's a good band name.

[LordmonkeyTRM]

I once threw a stone it must of got as high as 10 metres.

[joyantajay]

I am doing satellite communication as my major for undergrad. These things astonished me everyday.

[bijisivakumar]

Fun fact: the voyager one has a thing called golden tab(something like that), that means if any aliens encounter it, they could use the directions on it to find earth

Fun fact 2: the farthest thing we have sent is radio waves which have travelled more than 200 light years, for reference 1 light year is about 9.9 trillion kilometre

[wa_akii]

crazy thing ALSO is that voyager 1 is carrying atop it a record (named the golden record) that aimed to summerize the human condition in just 90 minutes. i wrote a school project on this record before and researching abt it just makes me so emotional in a very happy way??? idk TwT

[TheDramacist]

Man sends a probe 24 billion miles away. Amazon still can't get my Prime delivery to my porch.

[amrenderarya]

I love how she's always so happy talking about this stuff. So passionate I love it every time

[bhornannawindeedeigh]

These facts are too mind-boggling to even begin to comprehend. I remember Bill Nye, the Science Guy, did a show about the distance between the Sun and all the planets in our solar system. He rode his bike as a way to illustrate these massive, almost inconceivable distances with signage by the side of the road he was riding on. It freaked me out, a little bit. It's almost just TOO much to comprehend without my brain thinking "W.T.F.?" 😮... It's truly amazing and unbelievable.

That's actually crazy how big the universe is 😮

[dunningkruger]

"Oh lord, thy ocean is so great, and my boat so small"