> This happened to Voyager 2 not too long ago, where it was returning invalid and random data. Turns out, it was a bit flip This also happen to the Magellan pr

> This happened to Voyager 2 not too long ago, where it was returning invalid and random data. Turns out, it was a bit flip This also happen to the Magellan probe. Larry Wall was at NASA at that time and added the hex and bit string format specifiers to the pack function in perl so they could fix and recover the data: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/24f4b7dabc8 https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/24f4b7dabc8