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https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere Video released today of the landing: https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere/status/1363929492138254340 What's it doing? https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/timeline/surface-operations/ The surface operations phase is the time when the Perseverance rover conducts its scientific studies on Mars. After landing safely (Feb. 18, 2021), the rover has a primary mission span of at least one Martian year (687 Earth days). finds rocks that formed in, or were altered by, environments that could have supported microbial life in Mars’ ancient past (Objective A) finds rocks capable of preserving chemical traces of ancient life (biosignatures), if any existed (Objective B) drills core samples from about 30 promising rock and “soil” (regolith) targets and caches them on the Martian surface (Objective C) tests the ability to produce oxygen from the carbon-dioxide Martian atmosphere, in support of future human missions (Objective D) 
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The video of the landing was so goddamn cool.
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Mnoba posted:thing has a quadcopter to fly around I am looking forward to this part. Going to be drat cool. Tulip posted:The video of the landing was so goddamn cool. Yeah, it's fantastic they had all the cams pointed at all the good poo poo. I'm looking forward to the future when we can watching in "real time" and not be limited by the 2mb upload speed on videos. How ever many decades that is away.
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Athanatos posted:Video released today of the landing: https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere/status/1363929492138254340 Bob Socko fucked around with this message at 10:46 on Feb 23, 2021 |
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Athanatos posted:https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere This is awesome!!! I'm serious, I'm just amazed. I didn't think we'd have the bandwidth to send video like that from Mars. Just awesome edit: I want to hear the microphone!! edit 2: here's some audio from the microphone, just a bit of wind noise and the sound of the rover https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/25629/nasas-perseverance-rover-microphone-captures-sounds-from-mars/?site=msl Charles fucked around with this message at 03:44 on Feb 23, 2021 |
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Charles posted:This is awesome!!! I'm serious, I'm just amazed. I didn't think we'd have the bandwidth to send video like that from Mars. Just awesome
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Base Emitter posted:apparently some stuff on it runs linux, so of course the microphone didn't work 
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Base Emitter posted:apparently some stuff on it runs linux, so of course the microphone didn't work lol This whole thing is insanely awesome.
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Athanatos posted:Video released today of the landing: https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere/status/1363929492138254340 Love it!
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Has NASA said how accurate the landing was? I know they hit the lakebed, but how far from the exact target did they get?
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Bucnasti posted:Has NASA said how accurate the landing was? I know they hit the lakebed, but how far from the exact target did they get? the descent stage determines the actual landing position autonomously as far as I understand it so they didn't really have an exact location pre-programmed, but I heard scott manley mention it ended up ~5 meters from where it decided it wanted to go
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TheFluff posted:the descent stage determines the actual landing position autonomously as far as I understand it so they didn't really have an exact location pre-programmed, but I heard scott manley mention it ended up ~5 meters from where it decided it wanted to go That's pretty amazing. During the live stream they showed the expected landing area deviation for each of the previous probes compared to this one and they were HUGE.
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Landing area uncertanty radius via Mark Rober's youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH2tKigOPBU#t=112s
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Athanatos posted:Landing area uncertanty radius via Mark Rober's youtube: That was the image I was thinking of.
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That landing zone accuracy is also incredibly important for the sample return mission. They'll need to land close to where those samples are cached, and being able to do that within a few km, or shoot... 1km to 500m away? The little fetch rover will mostly likely be literally that, little, so it can't be running halfway across the planet to pick up samples. As much as I wish humans can land on mars in my lifetime, I think I can probably count on seeing martian rock samples be returned to Earth which is... pretty incredible.
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Potato Salad posted:They're not going to use Percy to drive to the fetch lander? Leaving tubes on the ground in that will be notes as “sample return areas” or some such
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One of my former students was on the design/production team for both Perseverance and Curiosity. Makes me really proud.
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wow hey remember that easter egg we tucked into the lander's parachute that cost $1/2 a million to implement?
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The Voice of Labor posted:wow hey remember that easter egg we tucked into the lander's parachute that cost $1/2 a million to implement? Think of how much they could've saved if they didn't make a parachute at all! 
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The Voice of Labor posted:wow hey remember that easter egg we tucked into the lander's parachute that cost $1/2 a million to implement? Why do you think it would cost half a million dollars to make some parachute panels a different color in a planned pattern
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Bloody posted:Why do you think it would cost half a million dollars to make some parachute panels a different color in a planned pattern Oh no nasa wasted $1000 on this!
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I cant even fathom the complexity of the sample return. Getting it there, getting it down to the planet, collecting the tubes then RELAUNCHING FROM MARS. As far as the collection tubes: quote:Of the tubes aboard Perseverance, up to 38 are destined to be filled with Martian rock and regolith. The other five are "witness tubes" that have been loaded with materials geared to capture molecular and particulate contaminants. They'll be opened one at a time on Mars to witness the ambient environment primarily near sample collection sites, cataloging any Earthly impurities or contaminants from the spacecraft that may be present during sample collection. The return missions: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/independent-review-indicates-nasa-prepared-for-mars-sample-return-campaign Perseverance is part one of 3 of this plan. The other two: quote:an ESA-provided "fetch" rover to collect and deliver to a NASA-provided Mars Ascent Vehicle, which then would launch the samples into orbit around Mars. An ESA-provided Earth Return Orbiter would then rendezvous with the samples in orbit around Mars and take them in a highly secure containment capsule for return to Earth in the 2030s.
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more falafel please posted:Is there a plan for Percy to leave Jezero crater? I guess it's probably a lot of terrain for it to explore, but I'm looking at those walls and it doesn't seem like it'd be easy to get out. I think the point where they wanted to land is suspected end of river delta, and they want to go uphill to delta itself, drilling samples along the way. I'm not sure it that is out of crater, but they at least want to climb something Mnoba posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PrLXEbMgo4&ab_channel=VideoFromSpace It always amazes me when I see photos from Mars, Venus or Titan, that it looks like a pretty normal terrain
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