NASA engineers discover why Voyager 1 is sending a stream of gibberish from outside our solar system By Ben Turner 01 For the past five months, the Voyager 1 spacecraft has been sending a steady stream of02 unreadable gibberish back to Earth. Now, NASA engineers finally know why. The 46-year-old03 spacecraft sends regular radio signals as it drifts further from our solar system. But in November04 2023, the signals suddenly became garbled, meaning scientists were unable to read any of its05 data, and they were left mystified about the fault's origins. In March, NASA engineers sent a06 command prompt, or “poke”, to the craft to get a readout from its flight data subsystem (FDS)07 — which packages Voyager 1's science and engineering data before beaming it back to Earth.08 After decoding the spacecraft's response, the engineers have found the source of the problem:09 the FDS's memory has been corrupted. “10 The team suspects that a single chip responsible for storing part of the affected portion of11 the FDS memory isn't working”, NASA said in a blog post Wednesday (March 13). “Engineers12 can't determine with certainty what caused the issue. Two possibilities are that the chip could13 have been hit by an energetic particle from space or that it simply may have worn out after 4614 years”. Although it may take several months, the engineers say they can find a workaround to15 run the FDS without the fried chip — restoring the spacecraft's messaging output and enabling16 it to continue to send readable information from outside our solar system.17 Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 zipped past Saturn and Jupiter in 1979 and 1980 before flying18 out into interstellar space in 2012. It is now recording the conditions outside of the sun's19 protective magnetic field, or heliosphere, which blankets our solar system. Voyager 1 is currently20 more than 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth, and it takes 22.5 hours for any21 radio signal to travel from the craft to our planet.(Available at: www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/nasa-engineers-discover-why-voyager-1-is-sending-a-stream-of-gibberish-from-outside-our-solar-system – text especially adapted for this test). About the word in bold “drifts” (l. 03), analyze the statements below: I. The verb “drift” is written “drifts” to agree with “signals”, which is a plural noun.II. Its past participle form is “drifted”.III. It acts as an adverb to “further”. Which ones are correct?

About the word in bold “drifts” (l. 03), analyze the stat...

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About the word in bold “drifts” (l. 03), analyze the statements below:

I. The verb “drift” is written “drifts” to agree with “signals”, which is a plural noun.

II. Its past participle form is “drifted”.

III. It acts as an adverb to “further”.

Which ones are correct?

Only I.

Only II.

Only III.

Only I and II.

Only II and III.