Telecommunications Innovations for the Mars Exploration Rover Mission

I figured it would be rather ignorant of me to assume that everyone is fully educated about the Mars rover program, so I decided to inform you guys about it, and what goes into this fascinating program! So first things first, how do we even communicated with a rover that is on another planet? Well, there is a probe orbiting Mars, and it takes the data submitted by the rover and sends it back to us. Although, the probe does orbit Mars and that takes around 16 minutes to do, and it is not able to communicate with us for 6 of the 16 minutes. You can find more help information and interesting facts bout how we communicate with something so far away right here : http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/technology/bb_telecommunications.html.

Thanks guys, there will be more information coming soon! :)