Weigh It Up · Space
How heavy is Voyager 1?
722 kgweight
NASA's NSSDCA catalogue lists Voyager 1 at 721.9 kg.
Enter your height to compare yourself with Voyager 1.
- 0.56× a family car (1.3 t)
- 0.12× a african elephant (6 t)
- 10.3× the adult human (70 kg)
- 0.06× a city bus (12 t)
How to picture 722 kg
Start from something you can see right now. Voyager 1 is about 0.56× family car. That is exactly the estimate the board asks you to draw: pick a reference, decide the ratio, resize the silhouette.
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