In addition, Curiosity does not send data directly back to earth but rather it is relayed through Mars orbiters.
"Two other Mars orbiters, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and the European Space Agency's Mars Express, also will be in position to receive radio transmissions from the Mars Science Laboratory during its descent. However, they will be recording information for later playback, not relaying it immediately, as only Odyssey can." http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-218 On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 12:48 -0500, bill wrote: > How long does it take from the time Curiosity takes a pictures/processes > it for transmission to reception by NASA? > > Is the picture sent in segments and does NASA use a 'checksum' type > system to make sure of proper reception. > > Today's pics were better than I took of my dogs yesterday, and they were > just a few feet away from me lying in my lawn! > _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software.
