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James Webb Telescope is up there with Hubble.


The rovers on Mars as well and New Horizons that went to Pluto. That is also at escape velocity so it will leave this solar system and most likely no human will ever lay eyes on it again. Voy 1 and 2 are still faster but hey they're all going in different directions so it's not exactly a race.


I'm really impressed by Ingenuity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenuity_(helicopter)

It was sent to Mars with a plan for 5 flights and a total of 7 or 8 minutes flight time. It ended up flying for over 2 hours in 72 seperate flights before it damaged itself with a bad landing. Not quite the "this thing is still doing science almost 50 years later" that Voyager can claim, but impressively engineered so it lasted way beyond it's initial mission plan.


> The rovers on Mars as well

Curiosity was intended to operate from 2011-2013 and is still active now, just shy of 5000 days after landing. Really impressive.


Never is a long period of time. Most likely we will, unless we go extinct.




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