[potench]

The article says the video is interpolated with AI. Why can’t we strap a GoPro on there and get some high quality 4K video footage?

[badcppdev]

Insufficient bandwidth to get much 4K video back to Earth.

[chanandler_bong]

https://eyes.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html shows the current status of the DSN, including bandwidth for each stream. Pretty interesting.

[monkeynotes]

Apparently using the mars orbiter as a relay they can get up to 30Mbps. I couldn't find out what the transmission rate for lander -> orbiter is though. However lander direct to earth is in the Kbps on a good day.

[hackernoteng]

Exactly. You can't trust any of it. Its all just CGI.