Voyager 1 ‘intercepts’ a song in the space,came from 25 billion km away
Many thought it was some kind of operational command or even a historical novelty, but reality surprised everyone when scientists came across a song.
Before we can decipher what this music was that was intercepted and if it had any meaning, we need to look at the object that made all this possible: Voyager 1. Back in 1977, NASA designed this probe with the aim of studying other planets in the Solar System – and beyond. And it did so successfully, you see?
First, it managed to fly over Jupiter and Saturn, until it passed what experts call the heliosphere, which is nothing more than the region of influence of our Sun, and then it ventured into interstellar space.
Today, it is already very far from us, we are talking about 24.8 billion kilometers from Earth, which is more than 166 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun. According to the ECO news it is worth remembering that no other object created by us is further away.
All this distance becomes a challenge for sending messages back and forth. Just to give you an idea, any radio signal sent from us here on Earth to there takes about 23 hours to reach. Of course, in addition to all this distance, Voyager 1 is already old, operates with limited systems and an antenna of only 3.7 meters, but it remains firm in its mission of receiving and sending signals. It was with this in mind (and through it) that ESA decided to do something special, and that is where music comes into play.
