Why was the Voyager 2 probe sending back digital gobbledygook from the edge of the solar system? Answer: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory says the cause of the garbled data was apparently a single bit in the memory of an onboard computer that was flipped from a 0 to a 1. The effect was successfully re-created on a computer at JPL, and engineers expect to reset the memory bit on the actual spacecraft on Wednesday. Voyager 2 and its twin, Voyager 1, rank among the most distant objects…(read more)