time taken to receive neptune image image from the voyager?

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ajith_bibin

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Hi.

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

Can anyone post it?
 
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MeteorWayne

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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.
 
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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.
 
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adrenalynn

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