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SuranWrap

Mar 1 2004, 10:01 PM

http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/01/1078117351464.html

"While many Australians are still waiting for the high-speed internet revolution to reach their doorsteps, NASA's twin Mars exploration rovers are enjoying broadband links on the Red Planet.

The rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have smashed Martian data speed records by sustaining a 256 kbps uplink to a satellite. As they scour the planet for signs of life they upload information to either the Mars Odyssey or Mars Global Surveyor satellites orbiting Mars via UHF antennas.

From orbit the data is sent on a 13-minute journey to NASA's Deep Space Network of radio dishes in the United States, Australia and Spain"

——Vampyric——

Mar 1 2004, 10:03 PM

that's cool!

Deftone

Mar 1 2004, 10:52 PM

awesome..meanwhile my cable at home downloads at 20k..pathetic lol

.::PHPfanatic::.

Mar 2 2004, 12:23 AM

Looks promising...

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Spirit and Opportunity have returned 1.26 GB of data to Earth as of February 18 and were expected to gather about 7.5 GB during their 90-day prime missions. Technical problems with Spirit saw the program off to a slow start but this target is still achievable as both rovers should operate for longer than 90 days, says NASA's Ken Ledbetter, Deputy Associate Administrator for Programs, Office of Space Science.
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The seven-year Galileo mission generated less than 1 GB of data, while the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, due to reach Mars next year, is expected to return 5200 GB during its six-year lifespan. The Mars Telecom Orbiter will almost double that after it goes online in 2009.

That's amazing... the majority of the article, excluding the usual names and organizations, I skim over these parts hehe.

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