Monday, April 25, 2005

What's Martian for 'spam'?

An article by Craig Covault from the February 28th Aviation Week & Space Technology reports that the U.S. government has initiated an $800 million project to create a Martian Internet, in which

"robotic spacecraft will conduct high-data-rate exchanges between themselves and with their Earth-based teams. The objective is to better control increasingly ambitious robotic missions and to return more imagery and data from those flights for faster distribution to the science community and public."

But mostly the robots will be accessing photos of satellites with their cowlings removed.

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