Sunday, May 23, 2010

A bit short for Aliens!

NASA Finds Cause of Voyager 2 Glitch : Discovery News
"What a difference a bit makes. NASA engineers believe they have traced the cause of Voyager 2's gibberish to single flip of bit in the spacecraft’s memory.
"A value in a single memory location was changed from a 0 to a 1," said JPL’s Veronia McGregor.
Voyager 2 left Earth on Aug. 20, 1977 to explore Jupiter and Saturn. It successfully finished that mission, then flew by Uranus and Neptune before heading into interstellar space.
It is currently traveling through heliopause -- a region of space where the sun's influence ebbs and interstellar forces begin to dominate..." Analysis by Irene Klotz. news.discovery.com

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