TopFoto reaches 7.8 billion miles
Later this year, deep space probe Voyager 2, still sending back information 30 years after launch, will go through the heliosheath (where the sun’s influence ends and inter-stellar space begins). And TopFoto is right there with it. In 1977 we provided this Olympic games picture for the famous Golden Records, details of life on earth in case an alien species picks up this cosmic message in a bottle. TopFoto’s image has reached 7.8 billion miles from Earth (12.6 billion km) and is going strong.
0062739 - TopFoto’s Olympic sprinters were carefully chosen to show different races of human beings, the Olympics having been identified as the perfect place to find such a scene. It was also chosen to reveal the musculature of the leg and give a clue that we are not just runners but also spectators, and that there is competition. ©Picturepoint / TopFoto