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I really liked the article - it was very coherent and easy to follow.

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.



Not yet. Only 20 or so of the full frames of the descent have been downloaded so far. Will probably be a day or more before they are all down.

You can see the frames that are down here: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?s=0


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.


I'd like to see someone make an animated .gif with those images.




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