根据科学家的测算，土卫八表面的这道“焊痕”长达1300公里左右，平均高度约为13公里，平均宽度约为20公里，而从那些分布在其上的陨石坑可以推测出，这道“焊痕”的形成年代应该非常久远。

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They thought it was gonna be a long, long time. NASA has successfully “reestablished full communications” with Voyager 2, an interstellar deep space probe which the agency sent offline with a faulty ...

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