Today I Learned: Voyager 1 is almost 15 billion miles away from Earth and still can communicate

Today I Learned: Voyager 1 space probe is almost 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) away from Earth and still can communicate with the ground antennas of the Deep Space Network (DSN).

The DSN antennas are located at Goldstone, near Barstow, California; near Madrid, Spain; and near Canberra, Australia. [Source]

Nasa successfully flies small helicopter on Mars

The drone, called Ingenuity, was airborne for less than a minute, but Nasa is celebrating what represents the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft on another world.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56799755

Today I Learned: Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have under 70 kilobytes of memory each

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Today I Learned: Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes have only 69.63 kilobytes of memory each. For comparison, a mobile phone with 16 gigabytes of memory has about 240,000 times the memory of a Voyager spacecraft. Source

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mission Path

The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory has an interesting infographic here which traces the route of its space missions.