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It would have been a data packet containing the battery gauge and some other metrics, it wouldn't make any sense for the lander itself to waste precious bandwid
by bogantech 4y ago
It would have been a data packet containing the battery gauge and some other metrics, it wouldn't make any sense for the lander itself to waste precious bandwidth by spitting out human readable ASCII strings like that.
It's just PR like the last one
- throw827474737 4y agoThey sent two flash chips full of names with the lander, they are transmitting whole hi-res pictures and even Apollo missions already had at least 1.6 kbit/s, sorry but those 64 bytes would have fit everywhere. But yes, that message didn't exist for other reasons.