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speculation, but it's probably compressed before transmission to earth... for obvious reasons.
by phonethrowaway 6y ago
speculation, but it's probably compressed before transmission to earth... for obvious reasons.
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- alpaca128 6y agoIt would surprise me if they used lossy compression. However I once read about a space probe using a custom image compression and transmission format which does not require 100% data integrity for proper decoding. So if the transmission is cut off after 60% NASA will still be able to view whatever they received. I assume such methods are still applied.