First surface photo is in too! https://i.imgur.com/C2s1job.jpg
N00b question: why is it black & white?
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#93Watching the live feed was a blast. When they said they received the exact landing coordinates I was extremely curious to see it plotted vs their targeted landing zone, but unfortunately they haven't shown it yet. However, I could audibly hear an engineer in the background say "Oof, well, we'll take it!"
Anyone seen anything about the precise location yet?
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N00b question: why is it black & white?
My guess is lower image size, which means image can get transferred faster.
That is most certainly correct. They also mentioned that these are images from engineering cameras, so they are normally responsible for navigation. The real HD footage will come in over the next hours as the bandwidth just is not large enough.
Elon Musk needs to provide some Starlink sats for a better connection.
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#95I love space science and engineering! It's such a beacon of hope and a demonstration of what we can do when we work hard and innovate. And it's pretty interesting in its own right.
Yes, especially during the Covid pandemic and the political unrest in the US. Space exploration has helped keep me sane and to have some hope for mankind.
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#96fricken awesome! i love being able to watch these things live. now i have to get back to work making pixels light up at the right time and the right color all day long.
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#97NASA's ability of succeeding at landing things successfully on the first try on foreign bodies since 1969 is mind-blowing. Meanwhile, SpaceX takes half a dozen tries before managing to do the same on a fully known environment on Earth.
NASA's ability of succeeding at landing things successfully on the first try on foreign bodies since 1969 is mind-blowing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
> The spacecraft encountered Mars on a trajectory that brought it too close to the planet, and it was either destroyed in the atmosphere or escaped the planet's vicinity and entered an orbit around the sun. An investigation attributed the failure to a measurement mismatch between two software systems: metric units by NASA and non-metric ("English") units by spacecraft builder Lockheed Martin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Polar_Lander#Landing_atte...
> Communication was expected to be reestablished with the spacecraft at 20:39:00 UTC after having landed. However, no communication was possible with the spacecraft, and the lander was declared lost.
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How could you know? SpaceX never landed or sent a craft on a foreign body.
SpaceX hasn't been around as long as NASA. Also, remind me, did NASA develop reusable rockets?
> Also, remind me, did NASA develop reusable rockets?
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not but... yes, of course NASA developed reusable rockets. The space shuttle missions reused the shuttles and the boosters.
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Here in oz its not live
I guess technically it's on an 11 minute delay for the whole planet.
Well yes, but I meant I watched continuously from 06:45 to 07:15 and it was replay of pre-recorded videos of the rover and no indication on screen it had landed.
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N00b question: why is it black & white?
It's from a hazard camera, which is not used for main photography. Better images will come soon.
Worth noting that these first pictures are sent in the first seconds after touchdown, you can even still see the dust in the air from the landing (even if it was craned down to reduce dust). It also explains the very low resolution in general, they want to get confirmation ASAP, no time for high quality high resolution images.