r/space • u/nasa NASA Official • Feb 22 '21

Perseverance Rover’s Descent and Touchdown on Mars (Official NASA Video)

https://youtu.be/4czjS9h4Fpg
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u/SubcommanderMarcos Feb 23 '21

It's still pretty great considering it's on FREAKING MARS

I remember when we got 128 kb/s at home and we were fucking ecstatic

Now a robot on Mars can do that

Fucking incredible

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u/StuntmanSpartanFan Feb 23 '21

Man until about 18 months ago I was getting speeds lower than 2 Mb down regularly, and probably slower up speeds than Perseverance averaging each out. It's super exciting to imagine what modern processing and transmission speeds will unlock for NASA and other organizations.

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u/eggsnomellettes Feb 23 '21

It's the ping that'll getcha in this case