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  • MARS like you’ve never seen it before… [In 4k]!

    07/23/2020 10:45:32 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 21 replies
    www.citizenfreepress.com ^ | by Kane on July 23, 2020 1:33 pm
    A world first. New footage from Mars rendered in 4K resolution. The cameras on board the rovers were the height of technology when the respective missions launched. — ‘Why don’t we actually have live video from Mars?’ Although the cameras are high quality, the rate at which the rovers can send data back to earth is the biggest challenge. Curiosity can only send data directly back to earth at 32 kilo-bits per second. Instead, when the rover can connect to the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, we get more favourable speeds of 2 Megabytes per second. However, this link is only available...