boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoNASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is talking nonsense. Its friends on Earth are worriedwww.npr.orgexternal-linkmessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up1139arrow-down15
arrow-up1134arrow-down1external-linkNASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is talking nonsense. Its friends on Earth are worriedwww.npr.orgboem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square26fedilink
minus-squareNoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down4·2 years ago46 years of radiation, dust, and passing through the heliopause makes it pretty amazing that it’s still flying and not an irradiated ball of welding spatter.
minus-squareconciselyverbose@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoSpace is super empty. Not hitting anything that would change its path or physically destroy isn’t that wild. Most stuff destroyed by time on earth is erosion or microbial breakdown, which isn’t an issue in space.
46 years of radiation, dust, and passing through the heliopause makes it pretty amazing that it’s still flying and not an irradiated ball of welding spatter.
Space is super empty. Not hitting anything that would change its path or physically destroy isn’t that wild.
Most stuff destroyed by time on earth is erosion or microbial breakdown, which isn’t an issue in space.