Thanks for the pointer. This really brought home to me the 'baud rate' issue of interplanetary communication.
Right now, I'm so used to streaming movies at home that I forget the challenges of communications across such vast distances .
Perhaps our children/grand-children will be using the faster interplanetary internet and will recall these days with the same whimsy as we do now our twisted-pair modem days.
BTW, is there a full-res movie of the descent? I've only seen the 'thumbnails' stitched together of the heat-shield and the parachute.