<P> In July 2004 an attempt was made to observe the impacts fragments of the comet Comet Shoemaker--Levy 9 with Jupiter . The craft's position meant it had a direct line of sight to the impacts and observations were made in the ultraviolet and radio spectrum . Voyager 2 failed to detect anything with calculations showing that the fireballs were just below the craft's limit of detection . </P> <P> On November 29, 2006, a telemetered command to Voyager 2 was incorrectly decoded by its on - board computer--in a random error--as a command to turn on the electrical heaters of the spacecraft's magnetometer . These heaters remained turned on until December 4, 2006, and during that time, there was a resulting high temperature above 130 ° C (266 ° F), significantly higher than the magnetometers were designed to endure, and a sensor rotated away from the correct orientation . As of this date it had not been possible to fully diagnose and correct for the damage caused to Voyager 2's magnetometer, although efforts to do so were proceeding . </P> <P> On August 30, 2007, Voyager 2 passed the termination shock and then entered into the heliosheath, approximately 1 billion miles (1.6 billion km) closer to the Sun than Voyager 1 did . This is due to the interstellar magnetic field of deep space . The southern hemisphere of the Solar System's heliosphere is being pushed in . </P> <P> On April 22, 2010, Voyager 2 encountered scientific data format problems . On May 17, 2010, JPL engineers revealed that a flipped bit in an on - board computer had caused the issue, and scheduled a bit reset for May 19 . On May 23, 2010, Voyager 2 resumed sending science data from deep space after engineers fixed the flipped bit . Currently research is being made into marking the area of memory with the flipped bit off limits or disallowing its use . The Low - Energy Charged Particle Instrument is currently operational, and data from this instrument concerning charged particles is being transmitted to Earth . This data permits measurements of the heliosheath and termination shock . There has also been a modification to the on - board flight software to delay turning off the AP Branch 2 backup heater for one year . It was scheduled to go off February 2, 2011 (DOY 033, 2011--033). </P>

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