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Would be cool to see how often they communicate, and what data is exchanged. Also, what bandwidth and the time it takes to arrive back here.

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Also [...] the time it takes to arrive back here

For reference:

    Voyager 1, interstellar space    21 lighthours
    Perseverance, Mars surface       12 lightminutes
    Artemis, lunar orbit            1.2 lightseconds

Aren't those measures of distance?

Yes, but the data travels at approximately the speed of light, so you can just drop the "light" unit in front of the time units

But where’s the fun of pedantry in that?

Delete "light" and it's the answer.

Yeah, it takes me 2 trainhours to get to work.

Sure, but conversion to travel time is trivial given a signal velocity of c. Or just assume a 'natural' system of units where c=1 :p

Maybe some of what you desire can be found here? https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html

And occasionally... you get a glimpse of something neat... like dish 43 getting data from VGR2. https://i.imgur.com/ZVAnt03.png

The downlink is 160 b/s at -154.54 dBm (as I type this - might have been different in the screen shot)... and then compare that to other data feeds on other dishes.

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