Thursday, March 23, 2006

Broadband in Space

Broadband only came to my village recently- now it seems that Mars might be getting a fast connection soon too.

US researchers have nearly trebled the efficiency of a miniscule detector capable of capturing single photons of light – the technology could one day be used to receive information through a laser stream of data sent from Mars to Earth. The finding could lead to speedier, reliable relays of huge amounts of data across interplanetary distances, setting up a form of broadband communication in space.

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