Originally Posted by Eddie Badger:
“I found this the other day, it shows which space probes are currently talking to NASA's ground stations http://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html New Horizons has been busy sending stuff all day at a whopping 2.11kb/sec”
“I found this the other day, it shows which space probes are currently talking to NASA's ground stations http://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html New Horizons has been busy sending stuff all day at a whopping 2.11kb/sec”
That's a great link, thanks

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has a massive data rate of 1Mb/sec in comparison!
Rosetta is chatting too at 104.86 kb/sec.





Is the search for Earth-like exoplanets now so unremarkable now that they feel they have to 'sex up' the story by adding attention grabbing rubbish? Given that Kepler-452b is likely to be a 'super Earth' I'm surprised they didn't describe it as being 'on steroids'. *rolls eyes*