#NASA #Voyager1 #outerspace #gibberish #solarsystem 🚀
Did you know that NASA engineers have finally cracked the mystery behind why Voyager 1 has been sending a stream of gibberish from outside our solar system? 🌌 In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have uncovered the reason behind this seemingly nonsensical data transmission. Let’s dive into the details and discuss what this means for our understanding of the universe. 🌠
**Why Voyager 1 is Sending Gibberish**
– **Distance from Earth**: Voyager 1 is currently over 14 billion miles away from Earth, making communication challenging and prone to errors.
– **Cosmic Radiation Interference**: High levels of cosmic radiation in deep space can disrupt signals and cause data to appear as gibberish.
– **Age of Equipment**: Voyager 1 was launched in 1977, and its aging equipment may be failing, leading to garbled transmissions.
**Recommendations for Future Space Missions**
1. **Use Advanced Communication Technology**: Incorporate newer, more robust communication technology in future spacecraft to prevent data corruption.
2. **Regular Maintenance**: Implement regular maintenance checks for aging equipment on long-duration space missions to ensure accurate data transmission.
3. **Signal Filtering**: Develop advanced signal filtering techniques to reduce the impact of cosmic radiation interference on spacecraft communications.
**Implications of the Discovery**
– **Better Understanding of Deep Space Communication**: By unraveling the mystery of Voyager 1’s gibberish data, scientists can improve future spacecraft communication systems for long-distance missions.
– **Insights into Space Exploration Challenges**: This discovery highlights the challenges and complexities of space exploration, shedding light on the difficulties of communicating with spacecraft in the vastness of outer space.
In conclusion, NASA’s revelation about Voyager 1’s gibberish transmission is a significant milestone in space exploration. By analyzing and addressing the issues causing this anomaly, we can pave the way for more effective and reliable communication with spacecraft in the future. 🌟 #spaceexploration #NASAdiscoveries #sciencenews
“The team suspects that a single chip responsible for storing part of the affected portion of the FDS memory isn’t working,” NASA said in a blog post Wednesday (March 13). “Engineers can’t determine with certainty what caused the issue. Two possibilities are that the chip could have been hit by an energetic particle from space or that it simply may have worn out after 46 years.”
We need to look up Ilia to translate for V’ger.
A chip malfunctioning after 47 years…not too surprising.
We should send someone out to go fix it
Maybe one day, we’ll be able to pop a repair droid out there, just for the sake of the tradition of having a functioning Voyager 1 craft beaming back to Earth.
Did they try turning it off and on again?
The fact that it is communicating at all amazes me.
It was built and coded during a time of mainframes and punch cards.
It is a wonder.
But what if aliens hacked voyager and the gibberish data is really a message from the aliens?
Outside the solar system…talk about remote work
The wild part is that they’re pretty sure they can fix it.
NASA engineers are bad ass. That’s all there is to it.
Hats off to JPL and the various NASA departments. Outstanding teams of engineers who blow us away with what they do
Well, that sucks.
You mean V-ger.
[Ummm…](https://i0.wp.com/tjmcleanwrites.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/ilia-returns.jpg?resize=629%2C354&ssl=1)
V-GER wishes to communicate with the carbon based life forms.
Imagine being in your 30s, 40s, or 50s working at NASA, and have a working space probe outlive you.
It got zapped by those damn C-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate…
Go well Voyager 1
Wild that its 70s tech and still mostly working. My iPhone sucks after 3-5 years. Talk about job security knowing that ancient tech.
Is this all that I am? Is there nothing more?”
Vger
Why haven’t we launched another version of voyager? Seems like a worthwhile project
It’s crazy that it’s almost a light day away from Earth.
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*V’ger… expects an answer*
Bloody sophons
Actually, Voyager wanted privacy and started using NordVPN lol
Don’t worry, it will eventually come back looking for its creator.
Now in 1,000 years a hostile conglomerate of religious aliens will misinterpret the gibberish and start worshipping us like gods.
They sent a poke command?!
Tell me this runs forth and not BASIC.
When I was in college, I had a book on TTL chips. I noticed that some of the memory chips were only good for like 10,000+ writes before they failed. I wonder if this is what happened
My grandfather worked on the Voyager missions. It’s so awesome to see them still in action in some way after all these years, even after he’s gone.
How long does a radio computer command take to get to it at this point?
It’s a beautiful thing. I think we need an international Voyager day.
I always love to bring up aurthur c Clarke telling Carl Sagan that a terrestrial space ship will catch up to voyager and put it in the Smithsonian [33 min in. Great talk with Sagan, Hawling, and Clarke from 1988.](https://youtu.be/HKQQAv5svkk?si=Y-sZXGJbhO3YLY9I)
Aliens!
Rimmer you think everything must be aliens.
aliens are going to knock on our door to ask us to turn off the gibberish spamming probe like an angry neighbour asking us to turn music down at 1am.
Voyager 1 is currently 15,127,175,279 miles from earth. That’s 15 billion miles. And moving 38 thousand miles further every hour. It is so far away that even if you had the most powerful telescope ever imaginable that could see in a straight line to voyager 1, it would take 22 hours and 33 minutes for the light particles that would image the probe into your eyes to reach you. That means by the time you see the probe, it is already 849,142 miles away from where you saw it. That’s 34 times around the globe, or to the moon and back TWICE.
Turn off and turn it back on again.
Get well V’ger 🙏
Maybe the Klingons finally blew it up.
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This thing is amazing considering how much tech from half a century ago is in a landfill.