Quote from: Lee Jay on 07/17/2015 06:30 pmQuote from: Chris Bergin on 07/17/2015 05:32 pm50 GB of data has been collected.....and yet to collect. Will arrive 2:1 compression. 1GB on the ground so far.Quote from: seawolfe on 07/17/2015 05:34 pmHeh...They had 65GB of flash memory available....didn't even get close to topping it off.I think both of these should be "Gb", not "GB". The recorders are 8GB (gigabytes) each (which is 64Gb), so there's no way to store 50GB plus the team has been talking mostly in "gigabits" in the past.So, they probably have 1 gigabit (128MB) downloaded out of 50Gb (6.25GB).Picky...picky...
Quote from: Chris Bergin on 07/17/2015 05:32 pm50 GB of data has been collected.....and yet to collect. Will arrive 2:1 compression. 1GB on the ground so far.Quote from: seawolfe on 07/17/2015 05:34 pmHeh...They had 65GB of flash memory available....didn't even get close to topping it off.I think both of these should be "Gb", not "GB". The recorders are 8GB (gigabytes) each (which is 64Gb), so there's no way to store 50GB plus the team has been talking mostly in "gigabits" in the past.So, they probably have 1 gigabit (128MB) downloaded out of 50Gb (6.25GB).
50 GB of data has been collected.....and yet to collect. Will arrive 2:1 compression. 1GB on the ground so far.
Heh...They had 65GB of flash memory available....didn't even get close to topping it off.
Another great line "Journalists love flyby's, they are science at the speed of journalism"
If you'll forgive me, I didn't want this week to fly by without remarking that this is the first planetary flyby in American history where the imaging specialist Jurrie van der Woude has not been intimately involved in distributing the imagery. Jurrie was the sixth person at the front table at every flyby. We completely relied upon him to provide us with imagery during those days. I don't know if it was something about us journalists, but NASA chose an Air Force fighter pilot from the Dutch Air Force to deal with us. But he was our link with the imaging teams for my entire professional career, and I didn't want this week to pass without mentioning Jurrie. He was a great public servant, he was a terrific guy, and I suppose, as we in Ireland might say, he was a mensch
He was a really great guy. Even when I was a young student, you could call him, he would pick up the phone, you could say, "Hi, I'm so-and-so from Pauls Valley, Oklahoma," and he would mail you pictures of the latest encounter. It was fantastic.