The Nasa person they have helping narrate what's going on is so genuinely happy the landing went well. It made me kinda tear up. It's infectious just how excited all these people are about this project. Also, I was a bit worried he was going to pass out. 10/10, would watch again (and probably will with my kids)
Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video]
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#32First surface photo is in too!
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#33When can we expect any imagery from Perseverance? The Curiosity photos were incredible.
Probably around 20-30 minutes after it's landed. Perseverance needs to lock onto sattelites that are part of the Deep Space Network for the bandwidth required to send media. It also takes 22 minutes to send a command and get a response back.
We actually got a picture like 3 minutes after landing. (Okay, a picture from shortly after landing.)
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#34When can we expect any imagery from Perseverance? The Curiosity photos were incredible.
Pictures already coming in to JPL apparently.
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#36IT LANDED!
Upright and in one piece. :)
No, but seriously: amazing engineering and amazing work. So great to see the images streaming in already.
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#37The Nasa person they have helping narrate what's going on is so genuinely happy the landing went well. It made me kinda tear up. It's infectious just how excited all these people are about this project. Also, I was a bit worried he was going to pass out. 10/10, would watch again (and probably will with my kids)
The audible whew from one of the crew members after maximum deceleration when the telemetry re-established was heart-rending. Years of work, and there's nothing anyone here can do eleven light-minutes away; it was either going to work or one of the thousands of things that had to happen correctly wasn't going to happen.
Everything happened correctly. :)
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#38They have a live telemetry animation web app, but I am currently getting a 503 from cloudfront. https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/mars2020/
The telemetry they have up on the wall is based off a project that they have open sourced too (Open MCT), or at least it looks like it.
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#39IT LANDED!
Upright and in one piece. :) No, but seriously: amazing engineering and amazing work. So great to see the images streaming in already.
The skycrane system is just SO COOL. It's also one of those things that is super easy to explain but incredibly difficult to actually construct, let alone have it work well after flying all the way to Mars.
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#40This is so awesome. Go Nasa!
I am amazed at what humans have been able to achieve in short time since the Industrial revolution.
After all the negativity of last few months, this brings so much hope.
Waiting for the first human foot touch down on Mars in my lifetime.