Re: a Quora - Will the Voyager probes last for eternity assuming they don't hit something

a425couple wrote on 13/04/2021 12:44 am:
> 
> Keith Lemons
> Updated April 6
> Meteoritical Society & Planetary Science Society Member
> 
> Will the Voyager probes last for eternity assuming they don't hit 
> something, or will they eventually decay?
> Originally Answered: Will the Voyager Probes last for eternity assuming 
> they don't hit something, or will they eventually decay?
> Both Voyagers 1 & 2 will be constantly be bombarded by cosmic rays, 
> against which for the most part they are very well shielded; they will 
> encounter cosmic dust; and, (slightly possible) some micrometeoroids. 
> Voyager 1 is travelling at a velocity relative to the Sun of 38,026.77 
> mph; and, Voyager 2 at 34,390.88 mph. Voyager 1 is 13.581 billion miles 
> (21,856,500,864 km) from Earth; Voyager 2, 11.219 billion miles 
> (18,055,230,336 km) from Earth. NASA recently estimated the Voyagers’ 
> velocity at roughly 1 million miles every 24 hours, which is blindingly 
> quick - such that a human would not see it pass by at a close distance, 
> they would have to observe its approach at a distance with telescopic 
> lens to even know it was there because of its size.
> 
> 
> Above, this artist's concept shows NASA's two Voyager spacecraft 
> exploring a turbulent region of space known as the heliosheath, the 
> outer shell of the bubble of charged particles around our sun. Credit: 
> NASA/JPL**

Ah!! No!! I must be going blind, 'cause I can't see any image of anything!!
-- 
Daniel