To address your question, we need to look at the travel distances of both Voyager 1 and Apollo 13.
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Apollo 13: Apollo 13 traveled a total distance of about 400,171 kilometers (approximately).
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Voyager 1: As of my last data update in October 2023, Voyager 1 is approximately 23.4 billion kilometers from Earth.
Now, to find the difference in distance traveled, we'll convert these distances to the same unit (kilometers) and then perform the subtraction.
Distance traveled by Voyager 1 compared to Apollo 13:
- Distance of Voyager 1: \( 23,400,000,000 \text{ kilometers} \)
- Distance of Apollo 13: \( 400,171 \text{ kilometers} \)
Now we subtract the two distances:
\[ \text{Difference} = 23,400,000,000 \text{ km} - 400,171 \text{ km} \] \[ = 23,399,599,829 \text{ km} \]
Next, we need to express this difference in scientific notation. In scientific notation, \( 23,399,599,829 \) can be represented as:
\[ 2.3399599829 \times 10^{10} \]
To round this to three decimal places, it becomes:
\[ 2.340 \times 10^{10} \text{ kilometers} \]
Therefore, the difference between the distances traveled by Voyager 1 and the Apollo 13 crew is:
Answer: \( 2.340 \times 10^{10} \) km
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