>Indeed. As a counter example, the Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope gave the
>world the first pictures from the 1st successful camera equipped Russian
>Moon Lander. The signals were sent "in clear" (those were the days) and by
>simply looking at the received signal they were able to deduce the line
>syncs and rebuild the pictures. They were showing them to the world before
>the Russians had announced the landing was a success.

IIRC the Russians were put out, not just because Joddrel Bank had managed to
receive the pictures, and publish them, but they were higher quality than
the Russians had themselves.

It seems there really is something in having a bigger radio telescope than
them :)

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