A job well done for the ancient probes ๐ซก
this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2024
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posting from vger.app, sad to see its namesake will have this fate
Geek out question: is radiation much of a factor in degradation given:
- It's moving further away from the Sun
- It's traveling down solar wind so the total exposure is less than something in solar orbit
And how damaging is background cosmic radiation compared to our Sun's?
Fun to ponder
Inevitable, but sad none the less.
Crossing my fingers for the engineering and science teams.
VGER is coming back.
I guess it reached the limit of the sky box, there's nothing running on the simulation after that.
It sounds like it's time for us to sit Voyager 1 down and have an intervention.
Someone got to run an AI model on it and it's hallucinating.
Insert ill-advised and tasteless dementia joke here...
You mean:
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