Megadel Delay News Today

Atmosphere. and the problem is, is that mars is far away. it takes about eight minutes at that particular time right now for a radio signal from mars to get here. so in the descent phase, about 6 1/2 minutes, suppose something happens three minutes in, it will send a signal to earth, but that signal wont get to us for eight minutes, which by the time we get it, it will be all over. so we have to depend on the engineers to have done their job right. >> so its essentially, you know, on a megadel d...