NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover
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Here seen at JPL's Mars Yard testing area:
Vehicles from left to right:
Mars Explorer test rover (Like "Spirit" and "Opportunity", which both landed in 2004)
"Sojourner" (landed 1997)
Mars Exploration Rover Project's test vehicle (Like "Curiosity", which landed in 2012, and now "Perseverance")
Vehicles from left to right:
Mars Explorer test rover (Like "Spirit" and "Opportunity", which both landed in 2004)
"Sojourner" (landed 1997)
Mars Exploration Rover Project's test vehicle (Like "Curiosity", which landed in 2012, and now "Perseverance")
MiniMan64 said:
Yeah it’s fairly loaded, UAV on board, power source, all the instruments, it’s a bit of a step up from the earlier tinny rovers that were basically cameras and solar panels on wheels. I always quite liked the Curiosity was called the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL).
Seemed appropriate
Ingenuity (the helicopter) is 1.8Kg of that. It's not really science, it's just cool.Seemed appropriate
CraigyMc said:
MiniMan64 said:
Yeah it’s fairly loaded, UAV on board, power source, all the instruments, it’s a bit of a step up from the earlier tinny rovers that were basically cameras and solar panels on wheels. I always quite liked the Curiosity was called the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL).
Seemed appropriate
Ingenuity (the helicopter) is 1.8Kg of that. It's not really science, it's just cool.Seemed appropriate
I gave up on it too. Why bother to even have a press conference if the speaker is going to wear a muzzle the whole time. They'd have been far better doing it via a Zoom meeting frankly. That said, it's more the utterly retarded and inane questions from most so-called journalists that did it for me.
Anyway, nice picture of the rover taken from the Skycrane just before it was dropped off:
You can actually see the sand being blown away by the Skycrane's little rockets.
Anyway, nice picture of the rover taken from the Skycrane just before it was dropped off:
You can actually see the sand being blown away by the Skycrane's little rockets.
Edited by Beati Dogu on Friday 19th February 20:53
Beati Dogu said:
I gave up on it too. Why bother to even have a press conference if the speaker is going to wear a muzzle the whole time. They'd have been far better doing it via a Zoom meeting frankly. That said, it's more the utterly retarded and inane questions from most so-called journalists that did it for me.
Muzzle? Are you an actual idiot? Amazing! rider73 said:
I often wonder if all data / images comes via some american supercomputer bunker where they get filtered for alien life content first - just in case......
Why would they filter it for alien life? The supercomputers are creating these faked images, so would be odd to spec aliens, only to remove them again
robuk said:
Beati Dogu said:
I gave up on it too. Why bother to even have a press conference if the speaker is going to wear a muzzle the whole time. They'd have been far better doing it via a Zoom meeting frankly. That said, it's more the utterly retarded and inane questions from most so-called journalists that did it for me.
Muzzle? Are you an actual idiot? Amazing! TX.
2 rubbish snaps sent back within 10 mins and nothing since. Is it working properly?
Nasa has done a good job with the diversity though. So wont be humming this ditty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_on_the_Moon
Nasa has done a good job with the diversity though. So wont be humming this ditty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_on_the_Moon
Fundoreen said:
2 rubbish snaps sent back within 10 mins and nothing since. Is it working properly?
Nasa has done a good job with the diversity though. So wont be humming this ditty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_on_the_Moon
Given your last thread title on the subject, you’re going to fit right in here...Nasa has done a good job with the diversity though. So wont be humming this ditty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_on_the_Moon
Any guesses as to why NASA haven't releasing any more photos (or videos) yet?
They must have a pile of them now because they're mission critical so it's odd they're not sharing as they said they would in the press conference.
While we're waiting, here's some info about the cameras: https://twitter.com/elakdawalla/status/13628211236...
They must have a pile of them now because they're mission critical so it's odd they're not sharing as they said they would in the press conference.
While we're waiting, here's some info about the cameras: https://twitter.com/elakdawalla/status/13628211236...
They'll be configuring the rover now & checking it's all working as expected. Some of it was folded for stowage or behind protective covers. They'll aso be switching over the software from flight mode to ground mode etc. I'm sure that once they've done with all that, they can free up the bandwidth for more photos and video. There's supposed to be some more on Monday I believe.
They'll be posting images here:
https://www.nasa.gov/perseverance/images
Its sister robot, Curiosity, has been trundling around on Mars for nearly 9 years now, so they are loads of photos available from that:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/images/inde...
They'll be posting images here:
https://www.nasa.gov/perseverance/images
Its sister robot, Curiosity, has been trundling around on Mars for nearly 9 years now, so they are loads of photos available from that:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/images/inde...
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