[Mmogamer]

Now that’s a return on your investment.

[MsLady]

Amazing!!! Well, that’s one time we got our money’s worth out of a government project.

[James C. Bennett]

The Voyager missions, I would categorise, as the creme de la creme of NASA. That they got so much done with so less, speaks for itself.

Fascinating stuff, from beginning to now.

I guess you need the Germans to run the place, to get that level of achievement, LOL!

[poindexter]

Maybe it’s still under warranty?

[traderrob6]

VGER

[reagan_fanatic]

The culprit:

[demkicker]

Truly amazing - I only hope we can get our educational system re-structured so that all children will be able to access the best of math and science curriculum’s before the great teachers, without a political agenda, disappear.

[ETL]

"The planet Jupiter has a system of rings, known as the rings of Jupiter or the Jovian ring system. It was the third ring system to be discovered in the Solar System, after those of Saturn and Uranus. It was first observed in 1979 by the Voyager 1 space probe[1] and thoroughly investigated in the 1990s by the Galileo orbiter.[2] It has also been observed by the Hubble Space Telescope and from Earth for the past 25 years.[3] Ground-based observations of the rings require the largest available telescopes.[4]

The Jovian ring system is faint and consists mainly of dust.[1][5]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rings_of_Jupiter

[Thebaddog]

How cold do you think it gets out there?

[Dallas59]

The sun is just a bright star in it's "sky"

[blam]

Solid-state chips I helped make are on that space ship.
Presumably, they'll be out there 'zooming' around a million years after I'm gone.

[Batrachian]

"Because of that pattern change, mission managers can no longer decode the science data beamed to Earth from Voyager 2."

It's pretty obvious what happened. Voyager 2 saw something that the government doesn't want us to know about, so they commanded Voyager to encrypt its transmissions. It's quite possible that NASA indeed can not decrypt the transmissions, but certain other agencies within the government sure as hell can. I wonder what they saw?

[tlb]

>>>Voyager 2 spacecraft, which is currently 8.6 billion miles (13.8 billion km) from Earth

If I did the math correctly

0.0014629270371999592 Light Years in 33 years.

And the next closest star is Alpha Centauri, at about 4.37 light-years distant.

[Dallas59]

From Earth to 92 AU

[Chode]

now bad for something prolly running what, a 8088 or 286 wi 64k or 128K ram???

[Cvengr]

Could be ominous.

[SouthTexas]

Can you imagine the mileage charge on the service call?

[airborne]

Do any of you with more understanding of the problem think that NASA can correct this ‘glitch’ and get Voyager to go back to sending it’s data home correctly?

[SunkenCiv]

voyager mystery site:freerepublic.com

Google

Thanks Dallas59.

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