Updates NASA's Mars 2020 Rover

[N_Molson]

Another beautiful martian Sol

 

[GLS]

The view from 5 meters up!

New flight tomorrow!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1385690832691339264

 

[Notebook]

Anyone know what the pan and tilt range is on the camera?
Pan can be infinite as the heli can rotate, but can the camera look above the horizontal?

 

[GLS]

Anyone know what the pan and tilt range is on the camera?
Pan can be infinite as the heli can rotate, but can the camera look above the horizontal?

At the time this image, Ingenuity was 17 feet (5.2 meters) above the surface and pitching (moving the camera’s field of view upward) so the helicopter could begin its 7-foot (2-meter) translation to the west

Mounted in the helicopter’s fuselage and pointed approximately 22 degree below the horizon, Ingenuity’s high-resolution color camera contains a 4208-by-3120-pixel sensor.

https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/25846/first-aerial-color-image-of-mars/

 

[Notebook]

Thanks GLS, so the camera is fixed?

 

[GLS]

Thanks GLS, so the camera is fixed?

I'd say so... weight is even more critical than usual in this spacecraft/aircraft, and it can point the camera for free by changing it's orientation.

 

[Notebook]

Indeed.
I did wonder if they would give the camera any movement.

If you wanted to look at a vertical cliff face, you either compensate for the 22 degree parallax/keystone? error, or translate away at -22 degree pitch putting the camera horizontal.
Either way is interesting.

 

[GLS]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1386330701218205696

(from the second flight)

 

[Thunder Chicken]

These pictures and videos look like something that some Youtuber could record with a quadcopter and a GoPro in the desert on Earth. My meaning is that this place Mars doesn't look so alien anymore. It looks more and more like a place where humans could explore, in many ways potentially more hospitable than our Moon.

 

[Artlav]

Billions of dollars of science equipment, but the camera can't even do 60 FPS 1080p. /s

 

[GLS]

 

[GLS]

Can anyone spot a non-martian object?

 

[MarkWatney2015]

Can anyone spot a non-martian object?

I see it...on the top left

 

[Arvil]

'Mommy!!'

 

[GLS]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1387568251412963328

 

[GLS]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1387842380427001857

 

[GLS]

 

[malcontent]

Ginny survives a flight hiccup:

Surviving an In-Flight Anomaly: What Happened on Ingenuity’s Sixth Flight - NASA Science

On the 91st Martian day, or sol, of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter performed its sixth flight. The flight was designed to expand the flight envelope and demonstrate aerial-imaging capabilities by taking stereo images of a region of interest to the...

mars.nasa.gov

 

[Notebook]

Mars rover: Nasa's Perseverance prepares to drill first rock sample

Nasa's Perseverance robot is about to begin its search for life's traces on the Red Planet.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Notebook]

Thieving Martians.

Perseverance Mars rover's first rock sample goes missing

Engineers investigate why the Perseverance robot failed in its first attempt to gather a rock core.

www.bbc.co.uk