Updates NASA's Mars 2020 Rover

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The view from 5 meters up! :hailprobe:
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New flight tomorrow!
 

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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?
 

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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/
 

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Thanks GLS, so the camera is fixed?
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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