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Fascinating photos. I hope, sometime in my life, humans will be able to go.

If the rover can stream to the orbiter at 2mb/s, would it be possible stream video to the orbiter and have it save in its buffer? Then it'd transfer to Earth later on?



But only for 8 minutes according to the voice over. Which would come down to 960MB in an ideal scenario (2 MB/s * 8 * 60s).


Is that megabits or megabytes? Usually lowercase denotes bits, so I think you'd divide that total data size by eight to get 120MB. With a good codec 2mbit/s is probably enough for low-motion SD or 720p video.




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