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ofiryanai | 3 years ago

I think only 1 to 0, as the cosmic ray cause electrons to "discharge" hence lowering the voltage, assuming that 1 is a little bit higher voltage than 0. But far from an expert in electronics and physics :)

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rvnx|3 years ago

Quoting the NASA incident report:

Updated May 17, 2010 at 5:00 PT.

One flip of a bit in the memory of an onboard computer appears to have caused the change in the science data pattern returning from Voyager 2, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said Monday, May 17. A value in a single memory location was changed from a 0 to a 1.

On May 12, engineers received a full memory readout from the flight data system computer, which formats the data to send back to Earth. They isolated the one bit in the memory that had changed, and they recreated the effect on a computer at JPL. They found the effect agrees with data coming down from the spacecraft. They are planning to reset the bit to its normal state on Wednesday, May 19.