Information Security with Occasional Forays into Other Realms
While Voyager 2's exit took place in November of last year, and the included video is dated from December 2018, the exit of the craft from the Heliosphere, and entry into interstellar space (just as the craft's sibling - Voyager 1 did in late summer of 2012) is still very much a newsworthy item hereabouts. Simply Outstanding.
' Cassini gave us Saturn, but also gave us Earth — as only deep space could reveal: Small. Frail. Lonely. Steeped in darkness. pic.twitter.com/zjF6jNUFyU ' - Neil deGrasse Tyson, via Twitter
...and now Ladies and Gentlemen, Girls and Boys, Behold, the phenomenal Clockwork Rover. Due to the extremes of both temperature and pressure on the Venusian surface, NASA must revert to automaton-like machinations from bygone era's, in this case, clockwork-like machinery to increase the longevity of the 'bots it sends to the hottest planet in the solar system. Enjoy.
