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NASA Releases Mars Data for Maestro

Posted by simoniker on from the adagio-con-brio dept.

The Maestro Team writes "The Jet Propulsion Laboratory has released the first Mars data update for Maestro, containing images just received from the Spirit Mars rover. Maestro is the public version of the actual tool used by the mission scientists to operate the rover. You can download Maestro and the latest Mars images from the official Maestro site, and join the developers and other users in #maestro on irc.freenode.net."

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  1. Disappointed by all the spam.... by JPL-Jeff · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well, I really hope that people won't be scared away from Maestro because of all the rubbish posted here. It certainly killed any useful discussion before it could start. It's a pity - we worked very hard on Maestro, and I think that there are a lot of people out there who would enjoy it.

    I'm very new to Slashdot (ok, ok, I joined just so I could announce Maestro :) ). Does this happen often? How is it usually dealt with? It seems like in situations like this the editors might consider just pulling the article and posting it again later.

    Of course, I don't see how anyone could even FIND this post considering the company it will be keeping.. oh well! :(

    Jeff Norris
    Maestro Team Lead
    Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  2. The average bandwidth Nasa is working with: by __aailob1448 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I asked JPL-jeff on IRC about it and his answer was:

    gozu - I don't have the numbers in front of me. It's like about 15 Mbits of products per day on the HGA, more like 180 Mbits per day on the UHF if we do all the orbiter passes.

    So it averages out to 2.3 Kbps! Of course, this is in bursts so the real speeds are higher than this. But still...It's shocking.