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I am a little frustrated at the "slow" pace of NASA puts the raw LORRI images on their public website. The newest is two days old. At this pace of approach ever
by peter303 11y ago
I am a little frustrated at the "slow" pace of NASA puts the raw LORRI images on their public website. The newest is two days old. At this pace of approach every few hours closer has a new and more fantastic image. At least NASA puts up raw data fairly quickly. ESA takes months for its Mars and Rosetta images.
- magicalist 11y agoNote that the craft can't take pictures and send data at the same time, so it only sends back a few navigation images and only periodically, fewer now as they're doing more science as it gets closer. It also takes up to 4 or 5 hours to transmit the images (I think they're down to ~1 kbps now). The last few seem to have been posted within less than a day of the team receiving them. You can see the transmission schedule here: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/06240556-what-to-expect-new-horizons-pluto.html?referrer=https://news.ycombinator.com/ http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/0624055... (images to be posted on the raw image page are in bold)