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Ask HN: Why doesn't NASA live stream the Curiosity video feed?
Title says it all, wouldn't it be an awesome publicity stunt for NASA?
- bugmenot 14y agoIsn't it? http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl Maybe this is something different?
- jonhendry 14y agoBecause it doesn't send live video back to Earth. It sends pictures to the satellites that orbit Mars, which relay the data to Earth, and it only has periodic contact with those satellites. So I don't think it has the bandwidth for video. It'll probably be a fairly slow data rate, more like a progressive GIF downloading. I suppose it could record video, and send it back, but it wouldn't be real-time.
- jonhendry 14y agoHere's an article about Curiosity's image capturing capabilities. It'll take some pictures first thing when it lands, but we won't get them for about two hours, because of the timing of the satellite orbits. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-226 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-226