Yeah, the intended intuition is that the size of collision required to derail a probe is proportional to the probe’s mass, and that there are many tiny collisions (e.g. with stray atoms) that wouldn’t derail bigger probes but might derail smaller ones.
But not particularly confident on either of these.
Yeah, the intended intuition is that the size of collision required to derail a probe is proportional to the probe’s mass, and that there are many tiny collisions (e.g. with stray atoms) that wouldn’t derail bigger probes but might derail smaller ones.
But not particularly confident on either of these.