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by mrmuagi 746 days ago
It looks like the RTT is 6 minutes (more or less depending on orbit) for packets send to mars, but despite that it does seem like the easier option yeah.
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Not really accurate at all.

The lowest the RTT gets is six minutes but that is a brief period every couple of years. The longest RTT is 45 minutes.

Even 6 minutes makes any kind of tele-operation infeasible and require system to function autonomously. This restricts the kinds of science that are currently possible.