Updates NASA's Mars 2020 Rover

[GLS]

Microphone didn't work during EDL... but maybe it does on the surface?

 

[GLS]

THAT WAS SSOOOOOO COOOOOLLL

 

[GLS]

Here it is!!!!!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1363929492138254340

 

[Urwumpe]

No flames?! FAAAAAAAKEEEEEE. ?

Epic videos, sad that the microphone had some issues.

 

[GLS]

No flames?! FAAAAAAAKEEEEEE. ?

Not much O2 in the atmosphere for periferal burning.

 

[Urwumpe]

Not much O2 in the atmosphere for periferal burning.

I know, and as they already said, its hydrazine monopropellant burning there, which is even mostly invisible on Earth.

 

[GLS]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1363934171358367747

 

[Urwumpe]

The video is also on youtube already.

(Great social media team work NASA!)

 

[Urwumpe]

Wait... microphone? WORKED?!

 

[fort]

These images are really unique.

 

[GLS]

The mic works in the surface, and captured wind!

 

[GLS]

Wait... microphone? WORKED?!

At the start of the press conference they said it didn't work during EDL, but maybe they had a surprise for later

 

[Urwumpe]

At the start of the press conference they said it didn't work during EDL, but maybe they had a surprise for later

Yeah, I expected that one of those microphones was cursed like the previous attempts to land on Mars. But thats really great to hear.

 

[GLS]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1363937472971907072

 

[GLS]

 

[GLS]

New raw images are now available!
Did another colour image:



BTW: Linux and ffmpeg are now on Mars. Orbiter should be next... to simulate Earth in there

 

[N_Molson]

BTW: Linux and ffmpeg are now on Mars. Orbiter should be next... to simulate Earth in there

With the hi-res pictures to come we're going to need lvl 50 surface textures and entire buildings to house our hard drives ?

 

[GLS]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1363954814497943552

 

[Urwumpe]

With the hi-res pictures to come we're going to need lvl 50 surface textures and entire buildings to house our hard drives ?

We do it like Microsoft Flight Simulator and push everything into the cloud.

Which means you will also get updates for Mars everytime a Mars rover photographs something new.

(Technically speaking, this would just require a massively modified graphics client and a masterfully crafted platinum credit card, that menaces with spikes of masterfully worked adamantine.)

 

[Thunder Chicken]

That video riding from chute deploy all the way through skycrane to touchdown...that's from Mars!

I'm old enough to remember Viking and being happy to see false color static pictures on TV. This video is amazing.