1931256466260489.5 centimetres or, if you prefer, 3167950339119.439 giraffes.

I doubt that giraffes are metric. But maybe they are some obscure SI unit?

Fun fact. 1 billion km is almost 1.1 light hours. 1 billion miles is almost 1.5 light hours with less error margin. So you can easily calculate that Voyager 2 is about 18 light hours from Earth.

So hwo it "just" took 18 hours for the update to complete, according to the article? Shouldn't be at very least 36 hours, given that you need feedback from Voyager?

It took 18 hours to transfer the data to the probe.

According to the article the update hasn't been activated yet but they are still checking if everything is okay.

> NASA scientists are carrying out a readout of the AACS memory to ensure that it is in the right place for the update. If there aren’t any issues, it will trigger the Voyager 2 update on October 28.

Yeah, but how many football fields for us common people?!

Metric or freedom football?

Rugby football, which went metric some decades ago.

Yes.

Soccer, football? And how much is this in Empire State buildings, depending on the average soze of a giraffe?

Either way so, that SW update of Voyager is some seriously impressive stuff!

How about earth equator-meter as a unit? or Equatometer?

It's in space, so we can say 129 Astronomical Units.

Easier to read than 19300000000km