time taken to receive neptune image image from the voyager?

[ajith_bibin]

Hi.

I am interested to know how to calculate the time taken to receive Neptune image from Voyager?

Can anyone post it?

 

[MeteorWayne]

Well it's not taking images any more, but light time to Neptune on Aug 25, 1989 was about 4 hours, 6 minutes, and 2 seconds (I don't the know how long Voyager 2 processed the images internally). At that time, Neptune was 29.58327 AU away (about 4426 million km, and you can use the speed of light to calculate the time.

 

[3488]

Hi Wayne,

Each image was 1,024 x 1,024 pixels, so 1,048,576 pixels.

During the Neptune encounter Voyager 2 still transmitted at a very respectable approx 33 KBS.

Each image took only 33 seconds to transmit. Not bad when you consider how old Voyager 2 already was then & how far away she was.

Andrew Brown.

 

[adrenalynn]

We'd also need to know the bit-depth then to calculate image size.

 

[bdewoody]

Doing someone's homework again you all