From November 3 to 18, the lobby of Contemporánea Condeduque will host a model of the probe, ahead of a festival with discussions and two concerts.
The replica, built by the Aula de Astronomía de Armilla (Granada) after five years of work, will be installed in the lobby of Contemporánea Condeduque, a space of the Culture, Tourism and Sports Area of the City Council of Madrid. This is reported by Europa Press based on a note from the City Council itself.
The exhibition will be open from November 3 to 18 and serves as a prelude to the festival 'A Day Light. Science and music for the Voyager 1 probe'.
The festival will take place on November 18, featuring discussions and two concerts. According to the organisers, this day coincides with the moment when the probe will be one light day away from Earth, approximately 25.9 billion kilometres.
The model is mostly made from recycled materials, such as wood, plastic, cardboard, PVC, polypropylene, screws, fittings, and electrical conduit structures.
According to the note, there are other life-size replicas at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington and at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of NASA, whose unit was last exhibited in 2018.
The Voyager 1 was launched by NASA in 1977 to explore the outer planets of the Solar System. In 1990, it captured the image of Earth as a pale blue dot, and in 2012 it crossed the heliopause, the boundary where solar wind ceases to dominate the interstellar medium.
The spacecraft carries a golden record with sounds, music, and images from various cultures around the world. The exhibition also highlights the work of the Voyager 1 and 2 probes, whose images of the giant planets and their moons remain a reference decades after their launch.
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