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Live Space Stuff Notification Thread • Page 49
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StarchildHypocrethes 33,613 posts
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SuperCoolEskimo 11,851 posts
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Registered 14 years agoI hope the Kerbals remember to self isolate upon arrival. -
JoelStinty 9,274 posts
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Registered 7 years agoThat was great. Humanity can be great at times. -
JoeBlade 5,865 posts
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Registered 18 years agoMy money is on NASA discovering SpaceMonkey and Stefansen shacked up together up there. -
Nemesis 19,957 posts
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Registered 19 years agoI thought the old fella was going to have chest pains there! -
barchetta 3,091 posts
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Registered 19 years agoThat was cool. Looking forward to the helicopter tests and the arrival of high res images.
Still, makes me sad to think it has been 50yrs since Apollo and we are still a lot of years away from humans on Mars. -
Nemesis 19,957 posts
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Registered 19 years agoWhen it’s your time to fly the ‘copter and you can’t set to inverted ... -
nickthegun 85,079 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI’m eating a bit of humble pie at the moment. A couple of years ago, we were bought a ‘gee.....thanks, I guess...’ present of our names on being put on the lander.
Now I’m they are actually pretty chuffed they are now on Mars.
Present upgraded from a C- to an A in two odd years. -
up_the_ante 1,507 posts
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Fake_Blood 10,812 posts
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Registered 11 years agoPost landing briefing about to start I think?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OCxouQGnns -
Load_2.0 32,641 posts
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Registered 18 years agoCan't wait for the HD video of the landing and of course the pictures of ancient Martian relics! -
General_Martok 1,862 posts
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Registered 5 years agoIs there going to be a HD video?! -
neilka 23,802 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI hope they get a glimpse of the triple-milkered Martian ladies -
Load_2.0 32,641 posts
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Registered 18 years agoGeneral_Martok wrote:
"For the first time, we're going to see ourselves in high-definition video landing on another planet," said deputy project manager Matt Wallace.
Is there going to be a HD video?!
"We think we've captured, hopefully, some pretty spectacular video. And they come with a microphone as well." -
Fake_Blood 10,812 posts
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Registered 11 years agoGeneral_Martok wrote:
I think so, last night they said they had “rugged commercial cameras” onboard, which means gopros or something like that. We should get a high res photo from when they cut the cables 10m above ground in the coming days, and the video on Monday they said.
Is there going to be a HD video?! -
Dirt3 1,437 posts
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Registered 6 years agoI think if there is a video it will be downwards. You won't actually see the thing gt lowered out of the sky on the skycrane, which would have been a lot more interesting.
Also as well, they will struggle with the data rates, so if there is a HD video it could take some time to get back. The high bandwidth comes from an uplink to MRO (mars orbiter) and then back to earth, and I think the MRO is only in vision for a small amount of time per day. -
General_Martok 1,862 posts
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Registered 5 years agoDirt3 wrote:
Slackers! How hard is it to have the Orbiter in geosync orbit of the Rover at all times?!
I think if there is a video it will be downwards. You won't actually see the thing gt lowered out of the sky on the skycrane, which would have been a lot more interesting.
Also as well, they will struggle with the data rates, so if there is a HD video it could take some time to get back. The high bandwidth comes from an uplink to MRO (mars orbiter) and then back to earth, and I think the MRO is only in vision for a small amount of time per day.
Sort it out NASA. -
Fake_Blood 10,812 posts
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Registered 11 years agoDirt3 wrote:
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/
I think if there is a video it will be downwards. You won't actually see the thing gt lowered out of the sky on the skycrane, which would have been a lot more interesting.
Also as well, they will struggle with the data rates, so if there is a HD video it could take some time to get back. The high bandwidth comes from an uplink to MRO (mars orbiter) and then back to earth, and I think the MRO is only in vision for a small amount of time per day.
There's an "UP-look" camera on the rover to watch the descent stage, so I think we'll get video from both vantage points.
Last night MRO was coming in at 2Mbit/s which is decent considering it's transmitting from Mars, but like you said, it's not always in sight of the rover. -
Dirt3 1,437 posts
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Registered 6 years agoGeneral_Martok wrote:
MRO was designed to take pictures of the martian surface, so it is in a low orbit to take good pictures (not a high geosychronous one). It's used as a relay because it has a kick ass radio (official nasa terminology), originally designed to send back the huge hires images it takes of the martian surface. I think the rover can send back directly, but its about 10kbps. So you would be waiting a long time for any decent length HD movie that way. In fact the rover has got so many cameras my guess is the limitation on the pictures/movies it can take is very much how fast it can upload all the data back to earth. Plus remember Curiosity is on mars too, and that probably requires a fair amount of DSN bandwidth to do its stuff.
Dirt3 wrote:
Slackers! How hard is it to have the Orbiter in geosync orbit of the Rover at all times?!
I think if there is a video it will be downwards. You won't actually see the thing gt lowered out of the sky on the skycrane, which would have been a lot more interesting.
Also as well, they will struggle with the data rates, so if there is a HD video it could take some time to get back. The high bandwidth comes from an uplink to MRO (mars orbiter) and then back to earth, and I think the MRO is only in vision for a small amount of time per day.
Sort it out NASA. -
sport 16,679 posts
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Registered 15 years agoRoaming charges are gonna end NASA. -
Dirt3 1,437 posts
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Registered 6 years agoWhat would be interesting is if all the satellites pack up.
Oddessey is 20 years old, MRO is 15. If MRO packed up the bandwidth would be seriously limited. I think there may be another satellite out there that might be able to act as a relay, but MRO is the big one with a massive great dish. -
Load_2.0 32,641 posts
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Registered 18 years agoFirst colour pic.
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1362832074546302981?s=19
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StarchildHypocrethes 33,613 posts
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Registered 16 years agoThat landing footage is awesome. -
MrWorf 64,082 posts
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Landing footage starts 11 mins in. WOW! -
Fake_Blood 10,812 posts
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Registered 11 years agoSound from Mars was disappointing, but in hindsight, don’t know what I was expecting besides wind. -
Fake_Blood 10,812 posts
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Registered 11 years agoRaw images can be found here, apparently there's a message from JPL encoded in the parachute pattern if anyone is incredibly bored.
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/ -
JoelStinty 9,274 posts
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Registered 7 years agoThe landing footage may be the coolest thing I have ever watched. Incredible stuff. -
MrWorf 64,082 posts
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Registered 19 years ago4k video of landing o_O
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StarchildHypocrethes 33,613 posts
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Registered 16 years agoOk, that is even cooler... -
Fake_Blood wrote:
You didn't hear...
Sound from Mars was disappointing, but in hindsight, don’t know what I was expecting besides wind.
... it?
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