Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20181126:19:45:00
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 won't 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 it's essentially, you know, on a megadel delay. and it's not like anyone sitting in this room can do anything about it. they're in it for th...
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