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The part that blows my mind is how they got the footage. They somehow cobbled together a tiny camera, running on a trivial amount of power, and transmitted the signal from the moon back to Earth. Lunar live streaming in fucking '69. Now we can't stream red and blue in the same image without the compression going nuts.

Seriously though, imagine how much clearer the picture will be if/when we go back. Just put a vacuum-sealed cell phone camera in a specialized case.

A regular phone probably would be fried from space radiation, but there's probably small adequate substitutes. I remember reading once about the computer aboard the Mars missions, they were on par with a good desktop of the mid 90s, but the radiation hardening the hardware had meant it could pretty much run during a solar flare while sitting atop the Elephant's Foot. It would also run OG Doom at low graphics.

Anyway what blew my mind were the pictures from the Voyager when it approached Jupiter. I remember back then having then-mindblowing 2 Mbps Internet, and Sagan team's computer was live rendering Jupiter's photo way faster than a 2008 gamer computer could load the very same picture from Wikipedia. By the point the picture almost finished loading on the computer, NASA eggheads were already laserprinting the photos on glossy paper.