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		HowardMei on Sept 13, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Voyager 1 has been traveling for about a year thro... It's a shame that Voyager doesn't carry some tiny nuke bombs to mark its positions. The SNR at a billion-billionth of a watt level is terrible.

thelambentonion on Sept 13, 2013 | [–]

An excerpt from a course I recently attended: http://i.imgur.com/6VW4X3o.png

The noise floor of the Goldstone Observatory is truly incredible.

noselasd on Sept 14, 2013 | [–]

They can image its position from the radio waves; http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-09/nrao-v1s09121...

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