How far have space probes been sent?

Question

They haven't been out of our solar system, right? I always thought that real pictures of Pluto's surface etc have never been taken. Any ideas how far they have been though? Thanks.

Answer 1

NASA sent space probes, to cross our solar system. but it will take 1000of years to reach there. space probes are sent with a gold disc, which has a bird song in 75 languages and photo of man & woman, also the position of earth in our solar system.

Answer 2

The Pioneer Sat-alights still transmit. They are way beyond our normal Solar system. So far away that if they were not nuclear powered , solar panels would not pick up enough sunlight for them to generate electricity. Our sun looks like a common star to them. Just a small dot. They didn't fly close enough to Pluto to take good pictures because Pluto was at a different spot in is orbit around the Sun. We are way past pluto and some. Into the Ort cloud  a cloud of junk and gas way out past Pluto. Pluto became a minor planet Or Plutoid when other larger Plutoids were found that far out.

We now can take pictures from earth based telescopes and now know Pluto probably consists of three objects orbiting a common center. Not like a planet and a moon.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

There are currently 4 probes that are heading outward and are way beyond the orbit of Pluto.  They are the Pioneer probes, numbers 10 and 11, and Voyagers 1 and 2.  The Voyager probes are still operating, with Voyager 1 the farthest out, over 107 AU away from our Sun, right at the edge where the solar wind is being stopped by the interstellar wind.  

You can go here to see where the others currently are: http://www.heavens-above.com/solar-escap...

These probes passed nowhere near Pluto, thus no pictures have ever been taken of Pluto other than from telescopes on the Earth, or by the Hubble Space Telescope.  In the summer of 2015, the New Horizons probe, which recently just passed the orbit of Saturn, will do a close flyby of Pluto.  That will be the first probe to investigate the Pluto system.

The Pioneer probes lost their power sources and are no longer functioning.  We are still in contact with the Voyager probes, and their power sources are expected to last until about 2020.

Answer 5

The most distant space probe is Voyager I. Currently it's 9,949,387,577 miles from Earth. Next most distant is Pioneer 10 at 8,992,579,834 miles from Earth

Although these space probes are far beyond the orbit of Pluto, none was meant to pass near enough to image its surface.

Voyager II is still partially functional. It's 7,999,332,896 miles from Earth. A signal from it takes 11.93 hours to reach us.

Answer 6

The Pioneer and Voyager probes that were launched in the 1970s haven't quite left our solar system, but they are still very far out. Much further out than Pluto.

Answer 7

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