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What will they show in the live feed? It makes me sad we can't have a (near) live feed from the delivery case or even the sky crane. Except for the understandab
by Achshar 14y ago
What will they show in the live feed? It makes me sad we can't have a (near) live feed from the delivery case or even the sky crane. Except for the understandable 19 (or so?) minutes or lag due to speed of light, the bandwidth is not nearly enough. It would have been cool of another level to be able to see the rover landing live, 19 light minutes away.
- avar 14y agoIt'll most likely be a panel of people explaining what's happening as they get data coming in, shots of the team as they cheer/look nervous, and eventually a bit after the landing there might even be a photo from the martian surface taken by the rover. At least that's what it's been like on other similar live coverages.
- ricardobeat 14y agoI'm more curious about why can't we have a live feed. We had one from the moon 40 years ago, is bandwidth also degraded by the distance to Mars?
- Achshar 14y agoThe moon is relatively (very) close (238,900 miles vs depending on where they are in their respective orbits, mars can be anywhere from 36 million miles to over 250 million miles away from earth), there are good relay satellites for moon and sun never comes in between to disturb incoming signal.