![]() perhaps needing to wait to schedule an optimal time for the Mars Relay Network to have a window to Earth.perhaps needing to wait for a satellite in the Mars Relay Network to fly overhead.local onboard processing and data compression.I don't know why it takes 4 hours to get the data to us, presumably there is Light takes 16 minutes and 1.8342 seconds to travel from Mars and arrive to us. The distance of Mars from Earth is currently 288,350,630 kilometers, equivalent to 1.927505 Astronomical Units. THIS WAS ACTUALLY ALMOST COMPLETELY WRONG! ![]() NASA engineer: because Mars is far away, it takes about 4 hours. Instagram question came in earlier, "why does it take so long for the data to get to us. How high Ingenuity was, how wide in feet or meters the image was. Things we weren't told: what the local Martian time was, likely temperature, and wind speed, why we were seeing that shadow. Never explaining just what the Ingenuity looking thing in the photo was, until prompted later by their anchor asking, telling, "that's the shadow right?" Butįinally after that minute, NASA got back on the air, and had an engineer tell us that was a photo of the surface. Ingenuity? Eventually I decided that was Ingenuity's shadow, not the craft itself. In the meantime, for that minute, there was a weird image of. Yes, I knew ahead of time, we'd mostly get telemetry data back.Īfter the single photo came back and NASA displayed it on our monitors, NASA coverage went around the room, showing understandably excited engineers, letting us listen to their literal squees of excitement. I've felt this way for awhile, but last night's Ingenuity coverage tipped me over the edge. Please check out the unofficial wiki page for more information. One of the mods will respond once we've enabled your flair. Please DO NOT include your email address in the mod mail message.ģ. Send a message to the mods via mod mail from your reddit account so that we'll know there's email waiting. Send an email to from your NASA email address with your Reddit usernameĢ.
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