A signal from Mars is amazing, more amazing that they are able to get back a reasonable amount of data. It would be different if a communication station was permanently set up on Mars, then it could be engineered to transmit a powerful signal and plenty of bandwidth.
I don't want to make this political, but it makes my blood boil that Obama is praising the mission, but this is his plan for the Mars funding going forward:
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In its proposed budget, the Obama administration would slash Mars program funding by more than $200 million in 2013, from $587 million to $360.8 million, before ultimately slashing it to $188.7 million in 2015
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Are you ****ing kidding me? Unbelievable. NASA put a car sized craft on Mars for less than it takes most auto makers to engineer a new model of car.