It's very cool that we regularly send/receive data throughout our solar system. I think this gets trivialized because communication has become so normalized on our own planet and everyday lives... but it's actually pretty amazing.
Agreed! Did you know NASA provides a real-time visualization of the communication happening via the Deep Space Network? Here's a link for anybody who hasn't seen it yet: https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html
Thank you! Frustrating this was not obvious in the article