Not sure if I used the right tag but I saw something about a space probe from the 70s malfunctioning and spouting gibberish that nasa managed to repair, but how do probes that are so incredibly far away transmit data back to earth?
In: Planetary Science
Pretty much the same way that you communicate with your friends when you phone them. As long as there are no obstacles, radio waves will go on and on forever, so it doesn’t matter if the probe is in the next room or in the next galaxy. The waves will just take a long ass time to get there and back and the antennas have to be ridiculously big.
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