Live from Saturn!

[Kel Varnsen]

We did it! Cassini is in contact with Earth and sending back data after a successful dive through the gap between Saturn and its rings.

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Data from a billion miles away only takes 78 minutes to get here!

 

[Bodha]

next stop uranus

 

[Kel Varnsen]

"Go to @saturn". Kbye!

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[Bodha]

the unfortunate thing about space exploration is that when the spacecraft is built, all its instruments are state of the art..for the time.


But then it takes 7 years to go out and reach these destinations, that technology is now 7 years old and outdated.

 

[BigRedRage]

awesome

 

[Kel Varnsen]

awesome

It's just staggering how they are able to do these things. Can't wait to see more pictures!

 

[BigRedRage]

It's just staggering how they are able to do these things. Can't wait to see more pictures!

These are the reasons I wish my brain could be put on a cyborg. I dont need to have active life, you can just beam what people are finding to me via news feeds. I really want to see the future

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

It's outstanding that it can transmit across that distance in that amount of time.

 

[BillsCarnage]

These are the reasons I wish my brain could be put on a cyborg. I dont need to have active life, you can just beam what people are finding to me via news feeds. I really want to see the future

You could go under the deep freeze and await your time... hopefully

 

[dreamcastrocks]

It's outstanding that it can transmit across that distance in that amount of time.

Agreed. It shouldn't be possible to transmit that data at the speed of light.

 

[Errntknght]

We did it! Cassini is in contact with Earth and sending back data after a successful dive through the gap between Saturn and its rings.

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Data from a billion miles away only takes 78 minutes to get here!

Light travels at 670,616,629 mph in a vacuum, which covers a billion miles in 89.47 minutes - and no signal can be transmitted faster than light in a vacuum. (Well, except for pairs of 'entangled' particles (typically electrons) which seem to transmit state transition information back and forth between them with zero time delay.)

 

[gpsinjapan]

Fun fact- while the radio can sure travel far, it's by no means instantaneous for spacecraft in the far reaches of the solar system due to the insane distances involved.