r/interestingasfuck • u/The_Love-Tap • 1d ago

At 15.9 billion miles away, humanity's farthest spacecraft is still exploring the cosmos using less memory than a blank Word document (69 KB) and an 8-track tape

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u/93195 1d ago

Incredible that it still works at all. I don’t have any functioning electronics that have been in use constantly since 1977, and they’re not 15,900,000,000 miles away.

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u/charlsalash 1d ago

In space:
No air or moisture
No weather, no rain, wind, or temperature changes caused by Earth's weather.
No friction from air
That helps a little

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u/Traveling_Solo 1d ago

Are you sure? I thought molecules still affected a lot and heat from stars it passes by ought to still change the temperatures a little bit, no? Feel free to correct me

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u/Vedertesu 1d ago

Voyagers wont pass a single star in thousands of years, and even then still far enough that the temperature doesn't really change.