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Way back in 1977, people gathered around their TVs to watch this moment.
回到1977年，人们正聚集在电视机前观看这一时刻。
The Voyager 1 spaceship blasted off to explore space and send back pictures of planets millions of miles away.
“旅行者1号”宇宙飞船成功发射，开启了探索太空之旅，并发回了数百万英里外行星的照片。
It sent back some incredible images over the years, like the Giant Red Spots of Jupiter, Saturn's shimmering rings,
多年来，它发回了一些令人难以置信的图像，比如木星的巨大红点，土星闪闪发光的光环，
and this one you should recognize, you're on it right now, that speck is Earth.
还有这个你应该认识，你现在就在它上面，这个斑点就是地球。
And in case it runs into any aliens out there, it's even carrying some music, pictures and messages from people on Earth.
以防“旅行者1号”宇宙飞船遇到外星人，它甚至还携带了一些地球人的音乐、图片和信息。
It's now around 15 billion miles from home, further than any human-made thing has ever gone.
现在该飞船距离地球大约150亿英里，比任何人造物体都要远。
But that can make it really tough to keep in touch and to fix any problems.
但这也会让和它保持联系以及解决任何问题变得非常困难。
In November, it was glitch time. Messages from the spacecraft started coming back in jumbled up rubbish.
去年11月，“旅行者1号”宇宙飞船出现了故障，它发出的内容开始以混杂垃圾信息的形式返回地球。
Amazingly, NASA's IT team managed to work out a fix and blast it right across the universe to Voyager, like a mega long distance update.
令人惊讶的是，美国宇航局的IT团队设法解决了这个问题，并将修复代码发射到宇宙另一边的“旅行者1号”飞船上，就像一次超长距离的更新。
