Hey everyone, have you ever called someone long distance and gotten nothing but static on the other end? That's kind of what's happening with Voyager 1, our brave little spacecraft exploring the vast emptiness beyond our solar system. After traveling for over 40 years and sending back amazing pictures and information, Voyager 1 started speaking gibberish in November 2023. Instead of the usual stream of scientific data, we're now getting a confusing mess of 0s and 1s (basically the computer language spaceships use). It's like it forgot how to talk to us! What Broke Down? The culprit seems to be the Flight Data System (FDS), a tiny computer onboard Voyager 1 that packages all the cool space stuff it finds into a message we can understand. It's like a translator between space geek and Earthling. There are two main ideas about what went wrong: Space Junk Mail: Tiny particles zipping around space, called cosmic radiation, might have messed up the FDS's memory. Imag...
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