All the images come down JPEG (m/l) first, and then they are sent down as full, non-compressed image data. That last part takes a while, but there won't be any surprises, just less compression artifacts.
Only drawback is, there will be the woo-woo fringe that is going to see buildings, roads, artifacts, fossils and aliens in the compression artifacts, and we are going to have to put up with that fucking bullshit.
Also, there will be the inevitable occasional data drop outs due to weather over the receiving equipment in Spain, Australia and California. Might be some scheduling issues too, and the craft is going to have to send down some of the high res non-compressed stuff twice.
The on-board memory will be dumped in plenty of time for the next flyby.
BTW, the next rock is WAY smaller, there won't be much of a long range view until New Horizons is all but there, so that encounter period won't have much build up. Original hopes were to encounter at least 2 subsequent objects, turned out we are damn lucky to even have one. (I was part of the team searching image data for potential targets, it was not much fun, but I was a co-discoverer of one rock. It wasn't a feasible candidate though)
Only drawback is, there will be the woo-woo fringe that is going to see buildings, roads, artifacts, fossils and aliens in the compression artifacts, and we are going to have to put up with that fucking bullshit.
Also, there will be the inevitable occasional data drop outs due to weather over the receiving equipment in Spain, Australia and California. Might be some scheduling issues too, and the craft is going to have to send down some of the high res non-compressed stuff twice.
The on-board memory will be dumped in plenty of time for the next flyby.
BTW, the next rock is WAY smaller, there won't be much of a long range view until New Horizons is all but there, so that encounter period won't have much build up. Original hopes were to encounter at least 2 subsequent objects, turned out we are damn lucky to even have one. (I was part of the team searching image data for potential targets, it was not much fun, but I was a co-discoverer of one rock. It wasn't a feasible candidate though)
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