Sunday 30th June 2024
    Difficulty: Medium

    Voyager 1 (Quiz #590)

    National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Public domain)

    Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, as part of the Voyager program to study the outer Solar System and interstellar space. The probe left the solar system in 2012 and is over 24 billion kilometres from Earth.

    1. Which of these planets was NOT visited by Voyager 1?

    2. Voyager 1 carries a gold record, containing images and sounds of Earth. Which of these songs was controversially included on the record?

    3. If you send a radio signal to Voyager 1 at lunchtime on Monday, when would you expect to receive an answer?

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