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    The document discusses how NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) facilitates communication with rovers on Mars. The DSN consists of large radio antennas located around the world that receive data from rovers on Mars and relay it to NASA. Rovers generate power from solar panels and use radio antennas to transmit images, chemical analyses, and other sensor data in X-band frequencies to orbiters around Mars, which then transmit the data to DSN stations on Earth. The DSN stations can array their antennas together to improve reception of the weak radio signals from deep space.

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    The document discusses how NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) facilitates communication with rovers on Mars. The DSN consists of large radio antennas located around the world that receive data from rovers on Mars and relay it to NASA. Rovers generate power from solar panels and use radio antennas to transmit images, chemical analyses, and other sensor data in X-band frequencies to orbiters around Mars, which then transmit the data to DSN stations on Earth. The DSN stations can array their antennas together to improve reception of the weak radio signals from deep space.

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    The document discusses how NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) facilitates communication with rovers on Mars. The DSN consists of large radio antennas located around the world that receive data from rovers on Mars and relay it to NASA. Rovers generate power from solar panels and use radio antennas to transmit images, chemical analyses, and other sensor data in X-band frequencies to orbiters around Mars, which then transmit the data to DSN stations on Earth. The DSN stations can array their antennas together to improve reception of the weak radio signals from deep space.

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    An Eye in The Sky

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    Vivek Dasari
    The document discusses how NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) facilitates communication with rovers on Mars. The DSN consists of large radio antennas located around the world that receive data from rovers on Mars and relay it to NASA. Rovers generate power from solar panels and use radio antennas to transmit images, chemical analyses, and other sensor data in X-band frequencies to orbiters around Mars, which then transmit the data to DSN stations on Earth. The DSN stations can array their antennas together to improve reception of the weak radio signals from deep space.

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    AN EYE IN THE SKY -COMMUNICATION WITH ROVERS

    BY -M.NALINI KANTH -I.SAMEERA -K .CHATHURYA -III E.C.E -K.I.ET.

    What is a Rover?
    A ROVER is nothing but a robot.

    They could produce the power they needed to execute their missions. The rovers can generate power with their solar panels and store it in their batteries. They could gather information with their sensors. They could send the sensor information back to Earth.

    The rovers can take color, stereoscopic images of the landscape with a pair of high-resolution cameras mounted on the mast.
    They can also take thermal readings with a separate thermal-emission spectrometer that uses the mast as a periscope. The Onboard Computer with128 kilobytes (KB) of RAM, 256 KB of flash memory and some ROM to hold the boot code and operating system.

    Mars Exploration Rovers :


    NASAs Mars Exploration Rover Mission (MER) is an ongoing robotic space mission involving two rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, exploring the planet mars. It began in 2003 with the sending of the two rovers MER-A spirit and MER-B opportunity to explore the Martian surface and geology.
    The Mars Exploration Rover Spirit

    The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity

    How do we communicate with rovers? The perfect answer to this question will be DSN. What is DSN? NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) is a collection of antennas at three sites around the globe used to communicate with interplanetary spacecraft missions. There are three deepspaces such communications facilities placed approximately 120 degrees apart around the world at Goldstone, in California's Mojave Desert near Madrid, Spain near Canberra, Australia

    MAP SHOWING THE THREE DSN STATIONS ON EARTH

    The 70-m Subnet: The 70-m DSSs are used for deepspace mission support, radio astronomy, and VLBI. The 70-m subnet DSSs support both X-band and S- Band up link and down link
    The 34-m BWG Subnet: BWG stands for Beam Wave Guide. The 34-m BWG subnet supports mostly deep space missions, but may occasionally support a mission in high Earth orbit. The 34-m BWG subnet DSSs generally supports both X-band and Sband uplink and downlink.

    The 34-m HEF Subnet: HEF stands for High-Efficiency. The 34-m HEF subnet DSSs support X-band uplink and downlink, and S-band downlink.

    The 26-m Subnet: The 26-m diameter subnet is used for rapidly tracking Earth-orbiting spacecraft. The 26-m subnet DSSs supports S-band uplink and downlink.

    ARRAYING: Arraying:

    DSN STATIONS USING ARRAYING TECHNIQUE

    ARRAYING OF ANTENNAS

    Full-Spectrum Arraying of Receiving Radio Antennas:

    FULL SPECTRUM RECEIVER AND COMBINER

    Deep Space Communication Complexes :


    A number of Deep Space Stations.

    High- gain, parabolic-reflector steerable antenna dish, and its associated front-end equipment such as lownoise amplifiers and transmitters.

    The DSSs are divided, according to their aperture size, into groups called subnets, for example the 70m subnet, the 34m subnet, and the 26m subnet.

    The signal processing center, SPC. The SPC connects with all the DSSs at the DSCC.

    Data DATA FLOW low at the DSCC :

    IN DSS:

    DATA FLOW IN DSS

    DATA FLOW IN DSS

    FEATURES OF DSN : Preventing "busy signals How the rovers can communicate through Mars-orbiting spacecraft.
    X-band radio waves used by the rovers to communicate. How Fast and How Much Data the Rovers Can Send Back. Size and strength of the DSN antennas.

    INSIDE A ROVER (ANTENNAS ARRANGEMENT)

    Some of the images sent by rovers to earth

    Some of the images sent by rovers to earth

    Some of the images sent by rovers to earth

    Some of the images sent by rovers to earth

    CONCLUSION :

    Research continues on ways to improve Communications capabilities of the DSN.


    Use of the Ka-band at frequencies as high as 31 to 35 gigahertz.

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