Data Recorder Malfunction Jeopardizes 30-Year-Old NASA Probe
by Passant Rabie from on (#64YRA)
For the past 30 years, Geotail has been sailing through the magnetic envelope that surrounds Earth to study this region of our atmosphere. But the long-running mission may be coming to an end as NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency recently discovered that the spacecraft's last remaining data recorder has...