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Re:Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video] by nothis on Thursday February 18, 2021 @04:55PM (#26186210)
Anyone know the bandwidth they're working with, at least roughly?
Re:Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video] by kibwen on Thursday February 18, 2021 @05:16PM (#26186485)
Here's a page with data about the Deep Space Network:

https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission/communications/#data

"The data rate direct-to-Earth [from Mars] varies from about 500 bits per second to 32,000 bits per second"

Re:Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video] by zokier on Thursday February 18, 2021 @07:36PM (#26187919)
Clarification, that is for the old Curiosity rover. The page for Perseverance has some additional information

> 160/500 bits per second or faster to/from the Deep Space Network's 112-foot-diameter (34-meter-diameter) antennas or at 800/3000 bits per second or faster to/from the Deep Space Network's 230-foot-diameter (70 meter-diameter)

for high-gain antenna, and

> Approximately 10 bits per second or faster from the Deep Space Network's 112-foot-diameter (34-meter-diameter) antennas or approximately 30 bits per second or faster from the Deep Space Network's 230-foot-diameter (70-meter-diameter) antenna

for the low-gain antenna, which I believe the first two images were sent through

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/communicatio...

Re:Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video] by m4rtink on Thursday February 18, 2021 @08:46PM (#26188489)
Maybe it was the low gain antenna but via MRO or other orbiter? 30 bits per second seems like a bit too slow to get even the two small images back so quickly.
Re:Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video] by extropy on Thursday February 18, 2021 @07:46PM (#26188006)
That's rover directly to earth, when reconnaissance orbiter is used to relay it's around 2 mbit to orbiter.