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> so it's possible that the signal just didn't make it all the way to Earth You make it sound like the signal was lost in between somewhere :)
by indexerror 10y ago
> so it's possible that the signal just didn't make it all the way to Earth
You make it sound like the signal was lost in between somewhere :)
- tombone12 10y agoWell yeah, scattered out of the antenna line of sight by the martian atmosphere.
- godelski 10y agoOne might say that it is lost in space.
- david-given 10y agoThe Space Kraken is surprisingly good at absorbing radio waves. ...but seriously, it's a small battery powered vehicle with a tiny antenna, and it's trying to be heard from between 50 to 100 million kilometres away, and even in the best case it's just been tumble dried, blowtorched, hammered with explosive charges, and then dropped a couple of metres. I wouldn't be surprised if it lost some signal strength. Mars Express was supposed to record the doppler shift of the carrier wave on descent, so should be able to pick up any landing signal. We'll see when they release the results.
- Gibbon1 10y agoIt's probably under the couch.