To: UCANSEE2
Heard on the science channel that it is taking more than 500 images and that they also will be transmitted back to earth over a period of many months.
Very cool stuff!
5 posted on
07/15/2015 8:46:07 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
Heard on the science channel that it is taking more than 500 images and that they also will be transmitted back to earth over a period of many months. Apparently, New Horizon's total data rate back to Earth is currently about 1000 bits per second, or 125 bytes per second.
7 posted on
07/15/2015 8:51:36 PM PDT by
Steely Tom
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To: BenLurkin
Oh, what am I talking about?
With all the error-correcting bits they undoubtedly have to add to the data stream, the actual data rate for usable data is probably way less than 125 bytes/sec.
10 posted on
07/15/2015 9:08:47 PM PDT by
Steely Tom
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