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Here is a cool simulator showing how much planning it took for us to achieve that.

I seen that, illustrates the insane amount of mental effort.

awesome! better camera technology should make this even more exciting

Ok, so, I'm not smart or anything like that, but.... IF, IF, IIIFFF it took ten years to get there, then that means, that photos will be taken with cameras from ten years ago. I was born in 1990 so I don't know how well the cameras were, but I do know, is seeing pictures from back then and they are not that great.

I do agree, they are better than 20+ years ago but still will look like crap.

IMO

compared to the photos from the moon trip? definitely no longer potato cameras

The digital camera quality from 1990 to say 2000 was a huge, massive leap. From 2000-current they have gotten better, but the disparity between the years is a lot less.

IE, a digital camera made in the year 2000 is was thousands of times better than 1990. Whereas a camera made today is probably 200-500% better than one made in 2000.

You also have to take in consideration signal loss, data compression, etc. The data has to make quite the trip.

The most important sensors and equipment on these things are not the cameras so I am sure when it comes down to weight allocation the camera is significantly lower on the list of priorities than all the analysis equipment.

Everything sent/received to Philae and Rosetta has a 28-30 minute delay due to the distance from Earth.

I bet those are some intense seconds when issue commands and waiting for a response.

It took 10 years for a physical satellite to get there.

Sending information is actually much easier. Nowadays, we are researching how to transmit data via photons. Very very fast.

Was this reply set from the comet!?!?

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Considering when the rover landed in mars, it took one 1 hour to send/ receive communication. Mars is much closer.

That's why I was surprised.

But like stated before technology has evolved since when I was into stuff like that ( carl hayden robotics team 842 ) about 6-7 years ago.

It's like 1998 but real!