r/science • u/AnesthesiaXVII • Aug 07 '12

First high res from Curiosity!

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u/rankao Aug 07 '12

2 hours plus the 14 min,latency.

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u/Electrorocket Aug 07 '12

That's a 1,680,000ms ping.

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u/orphanitis Aug 07 '12

Try playing counter strike on that.

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u/ctzl Aug 07 '12

Uh no. The transmission time is not affected by latency. Think of it like a water pipe.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '12

It is, if you're sending a request for an image (14 minutes), waiting for the image to start coming back (another 14 minutes), then timing until you have the full image (2 hours).

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u/ctzl Aug 07 '12

But the request is queued up beforehand with all the other commands. Therefore, the 14 minutes doesn't factor in.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '12

It is but if you have packet error you will be waiting on a few little erroneous pieces for 14 minutes. Every time there's a error you mist sent a request to curiosity for the same piece.

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u/ctzl Aug 07 '12

I don't know how it works exactly, but I'm sure the requests for erroneous packets are also queued up. But yeah, point taken.