Posted by tourdemars to Interplanetary Internet at January 11, 2004 12:00 PM

Research by three scientists from the Haifa Technion made the transmission of video pictures from Mars by the NASA explorer "Spirit" possible, according to HP (Hewlett Packard) Labs, which was responsible for the image transmissions. The ability to transmit the images was feasible thanks to a unique algorithm developed by Technion graduates living in the US as a continuation of work launched by two other Technion professors a quarter of a century ago.