Yet with less computing power than a 1980s video game, Voyager 1 continues sending back revolutionary discoveries from the edge of the solar system. Voyager 1 carries six flight-computer units designed in the early 1970s, and NASA’s own accounting puts their combined memory at about 68 kilobytes. That is less data than many single photographs compressed by a modern phone. The comparison is accura... [7637 chars]
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