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Well, I know that you can transmit sound over a beam of light, Why wouldn't you be able to transmit Data over a beam of light?
Sunlight takes what was it, 6-8 seconds (or was it minutes) to get to earth from where it is, and the sun is much further from the earth than mars. In theory (assuming it is possible) The only thing that would really be damaged by the distance is connection time, once the connection was made it "could" be just as fast. But also, there would be a small light dissipation caused by the deflecting of the light from the far side of mars via satellite, which would probably cause some data loss.
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