re: lapses? tell more!
Hi, JimO:
During this last JPL commentary, these 'lapses' were refered to as "empty boxes". In a way, it makes sense, so that not ALL of the data is lost at once. We'll have to wait and see the 'entire' show after they edited it/or do their stitching.
Then there's this from your article at MSNBC.
[The probe is expected to take about 135 minutes, give or take 15, to make the descent to the surface, all the while streaming its observations (including more than a thousand images) skyward. Two separate channels are used for redundancy. One data stream lags the other by six seconds, so that a brief communications hiccup wouldn't result in the loss of any information.]