A job well done for the ancient probes 🫡

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.