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hparadizyesterday at 11:24 PM2 repliesview on HN

The rovers on Mars as well and New Horizons that went to Pluto. That is also at escape velocity so it will leave this solar system and most likely no human will ever lay eyes on it again. Voy 1 and 2 are still faster but hey they're all going in different directions so it's not exactly a race.


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bigiaintoday at 1:32 AM

I'm really impressed by Ingenuity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenuity_(helicopter)

It was sent to Mars with a plan for 5 flights and a total of 7 or 8 minutes flight time. It ended up flying for over 2 hours in 72 seperate flights before it damaged itself with a bad landing. Not quite the "this thing is still doing science almost 50 years later" that Voyager can claim, but impressively engineered so it lasted way beyond it's initial mission plan.

Valakas_today at 6:14 AM

Never is a long period of time. Most likely we will, unless we go extinct.