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Originally Posted by Kal
They were discussing this last night on NASA tv while I was watching it. The data rate is variable depending on the elevation of the receiving dish on earth, 1kb/s when it is lower to the horizon up to a max of 4kb/s when it is vertical.
You can actually see real time information including the current data transfer speed at http://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html Currently coming in at 1.68kb/s at Canberra  |
Thanks for that link - very interesting.
I just saw the mountains shot on cnn.
It's great.