I was really surprised at how fast the heat shield dropped away, and slightly disappointed that we didn't get to see it hit the ground.
Perseverance rover’s descent and touchdown on Mars [video]
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#12This is incredible quality. What's the file size of the video and what path did the data take?
I believe the data is uplinked through orbiters than relayed back from there.
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#13I was really surprised at how fast the heat shield dropped away, and slightly disappointed that we didn't get to see it hit the ground.
HiRise captured the whole shebang: An image with the lander, heat shield, descent stage, and parachute. The descender is always a big black smear after these things, which is quite sad.
I'm looking for the link, but the NASA TV feed had it.
Re: Perseverance rover’s descent and touchdown on Mars [video]
#14Here's a recording of the martian wind from one of the rover microphones https://soundcloud.com/nasa/first-sounds-from-mars-filters-o...
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#15In case the other thread doesn't make the front page, they also added a microphone to this lander and managed to capture the sound of Mar's wind, which to me is almost more amazing:
https://soundcloud.com/nasa/first-sounds-from-mars-filters-o...
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#16I was really surprised at how fast the heat shield dropped away, and slightly disappointed that we didn't get to see it hit the ground.
I was hoping for the same, but at 9.5km away, and with a decelerating speed of 150m/s we wouldn't see but only a pixel.
I wonder if they have the time/it's in their plan to send the bot over to record where it landed, the state that it's in, etc. If they want to simulate assess the damage, it would be cheaper to make heat shield 50 of them on Earth and drop them from 10-15km. I assume that every minute is gold and they already got a X-days meter-by-meter plan on what to do with little room for free exploration.
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#17I was really surprised at how fast the heat shield dropped away, and slightly disappointed that we didn't get to see it hit the ground.
HiRise captured the whole shebang: An image with the lander, heat shield, descent stage, and parachute. The descender is always a big black smear after these things, which is quite sad. I'm looking for the link, but the NASA TV feed had it.
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#18As incredible as this footage is, it's even more mindblowing to realize we've been doing this for 50 years now. We know how to land on mars. Time to do it with people.
We know how to land relatively small things on Mars landing humans will be a much larger craft and because of that a harder task.
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#19Just amazing.
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#20https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars
> To date, no proof has been found of past or present life on Mars.
I wonder how long it takes until we get the first confirmation of some sort of life on Mars (e.g. something like bacteria or so).
Is this realistic already in the coming days?