Computer components that can last 47 years and withstand extreme temps is just as amazing as the distance the two probes have traveled.

Funny how they said Voyager wouldn’t survive past 2025 and yet here we are 2026 and that darn sucker still beating

I so admire the Voyagers. They have less computer power than our cell phones.  I think they are one of the greatest successes of the whole Space program.

People who built them most are dead. That's crazy, it still keeps sending us info. A legacy to their work. What an honor, amazing work

I love how 1970's NASA engineers designed a craft with multiple, long-term redundancies for a mission that was only 'supposed' to have lasted 3 years.

they made this miracle in the 70's but compannies convinced us that is normal that a phone 1000 times more modern shouldn't last more than 2 years...

1977: NASA launches voyager to space that we can still communicate with it. Some 15 billion miles away this day, some 47 years later. Yet, for some reason, my ISP still can't give me a reliable internet connection.

Whenever I see that blue dot picture i simply cannot wrap my mind around the fact that it took that picture (in 1990!!!!!) and sent it back here.  Just incredible

My Dad built the RTGs that the Voyagers, the first Mars lander mission, a Venus mission and a Jupiter mission used. The side effects killed him before the Voyagers got to the heliosphere. Other very clever people also built parts of space craft knowing it would shorten their lives. Please consider their sacrifice and appreciate their work.

""My battery is low and it's getting dark."" ~ Opportunity on June 10, 2018
Imagine the entire world fall into mourning when one of the Voyagers share its last words...

By the way, NASA did send a replay to this little rover:
"I'll find you in the morning sun
And when the night is new
I'll be looking at the moon
But I'll be seeing you"

Among all the mind blowing things about the Voyagers is that a the wattage of a refrigerator light bulb can still send a signal to us from  billions of miles away.

I'm listening to this while working the graveyard shift on a Friday night. Yay... This is definitely helping me get through it. I love astrum content. Thank you

Mom worked for a company that built the circuit boards for Voyager, Apollo and the shuttles before computers were installed. Like to think something her hand touched and built is still working out there!

It should be noted that Dr. Ed Stone, project scientist for the Voyager project, passed away in June of this year. Since 1972 Ed and Voyager were almost indistinguishable. As project scientist he oversaw design, development, and implementation of the incredibly effective scientific instruments on board the two craft, and was the perfect complement to the brilliant engineers who designed and built Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. He was also the face of the Voyagers when communicating with both the public and with Washington politicians (to secure funding). Ed previously served as chair of the Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy at Cal Tech, and Director of JPL. Even with his numerous accomplishments, many have commented that while Ed was always the smartest man in the room, he was also the most humble. This is true. Ed and the Voyagers lived their lives together; it is perhaps fitting that their lights dimmed together. He will be missed.

'Saturn could lose its rings in 300 million years' Ill set my alarm, dont want to miss that 😁

One of my professors once talked with me about the voyagers and he then said

"Can u imagine that one day in the distance future when humanity are able to conquer the stars we stumbled upon these ancient explorer, a glimpse to our past to our ancestors without these two brave explorer humanity wouldn't get to where we are today"

And i still couldn't stop thinking till this day that one day in the distance future we might stumbled upon these two probes in the deep spaces

The pale blue dot speech by Sagan will never fail to bring me to tears.

41:39 Lol, wasn't expecting to see the "everything is fine" dog.

I remember my browser homepage was set to the NASA voyager tracker for YEARS.  It was something my father and I bonded on, and those two missions started a lifelong interest in our solar system and eventually space

I admit, I am old enough to remember 8-Track Tapes. I am older than both Voyagers too. I was born just before the first Moon Landing.
So I truly appreciate and am awed by the Voyager's still being alive as it were. A testament to Humans thirst for knowledge and capacity to create things to gather that knowledge.