For the past five months, the Voyager 1 spacecraft has been sending a steady stream of unreadable gibberish back to Earth. Now, NASA engineers finally know why.
In March, NASA engineers sent a command prompt, or"poke," to the craft to get a readout from its flight data subsystem — which packages Voyager 1's science and engineering data before beaming it back to Earth. Sign up for the Live Science daily newsletter nowGet the world’s most fascinating discoveries delivered straight to your inbox.
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