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Finally, engineers have a clue that could help them save Voyager 1 (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

There's a little bit more context (although not a lot) at the NASA blog which seems to be the source for this article. Basically it looks like they instructed it to go to different memory addresses and run whatever code was there in order to try to bypass any corrupted sections. One result was this memory dump. The reason they didn't immediately identify it was that it wasn't properly formatted in the normal way.