Prototypes of The Pulse - monitoring the heartbeat of deep space communications from dsn Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 56 sec
✓ Published: 18-Sep-2014

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The Pulse is a sculpture at JPL which reacts to live u0003communications between 30+ u0003interplanetary spacecraft and u0003the Deep Space Network. u0003Uplinks to a spacecraft trigger streams of light upward. u0003Downlinks back to Earth trigger lights downward. More activity u0003in the lights means more data transmitted. nnThe sculpture cycles through u0003all the missions that the DSN is currently communicating with.nnData streamed from: http://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.htmlnnMore here: directe