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jkot on July 19, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why it takes so long to get data back from New Hor...

It is actually VERY impressive if you account for distance, background noise etc.. It is transferring several gigabytes of data across solar system.

Sharlin on July 19, 2015 [–]

And the fact that the transmitter uses less power than a light bulb.

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