The sensors were unable to process the visual data and return meaningful images.
All they have is visual data, so it could be one of a million different chemical compounds.
Often the person has to make a conscious choice about how to divide mental effort between making sense of visual data and performing other tasks.
I have confirmatory visual data at this post, which has just been closed for security reasons.
His mind recoiled from the effort of trying to interpret the visual data.
We're now being bounced visual and sensor data from their planetary defense satellite network.
Whether or not they were able to retrieve its visual data, we have no way of knowing.
Think about it: visual data which hits us as if it were sound.
They continuously record visual data and sound, even in the dark.
The visual data also allowed scientists to investigate the composition and age of the planet.