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minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·1 year agoIt’s still pulled by the sun’s gravity.
minus-squareikidd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 year agoActually, it reached solar escape velocity, probably on it’s Jupiter flyby. Here is Vgr2’s velocity chart, 1 probably did pretty much the same .
minus-squareI Cast Fist@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoHuh, there’s a small but steady velocity falloff, is that from the microgravity from being so far from any large celestial bodies?
minus-squareikidd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoThat’ll still be Sun’s gravity, it exists but it’s not enough to recapture the probe
It’s still pulled by the sun’s gravity.
Actually, it reached solar escape velocity, probably on it’s Jupiter flyby. Here is Vgr2’s velocity chart, 1 probably did pretty much the same
Huh, there’s a small but steady velocity falloff, is that from the microgravity from being so far from any large celestial bodies?
That’ll still be Sun’s gravity, it exists but it’s not enough to recapture the probe