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		withinboredom on Feb 26, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Strange plant-like formation captured by Curiosity... With only an eight minute window, wouldn’t that make the effective bandwidth be 10kbps?

giantrobot on Feb 27, 2022 [–]

The Mars rovers aren't doing OnlyFans livestreams. They've got science data to upload and can empty their spool in the time the orbiters are in range. They also have their direct uplinks to Earth at up to 32kbps for control and telemetry.

withinboredom on Feb 27, 2022 | [–]

Maybe they should.

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