perseverance rover landing on mars - today 2/18

[IronWing]

180° wide angle lens, full disk

 

[hal2kilo]

180 wide angle lens, full disk

Waste no pixels, I guess.

 

[kage69]

I'm expecting the Chinese rover to build a 1 meter sq. artificial island on Mars IATD (Immediately After Touch Down) and claim the planet for itself.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if the CCP used the platform for propaganda somehow. Daily updates from Mars or something.

"I am honored to proclaim China's indisputable and historical rights to Mars!"

"Foreign powers should stay away to preserve peace and stability."

"Those Uighur women were already sterile."

 

[BoomerD]

Just one question. Why do the pictures seem to be looking through a porthole? I mean rectangular pictures have been a things since like the beginning of photography. How long has it been since there were round CRT's, let alone CRTs.

Taken with the hazard avoidance cams...used for driving.

Blog: First Image From Perseverance on Mars – Perseverance Mars Rover

blogs.nasa.gov

 

[hal2kilo]

Taken with the hazard avoidance cams...used for driving.

Blog: First Image From Perseverance on Mars – Perseverance Mars Rover

blogs.nasa.gov

Now it finally makes sense. These aren't the multi-spectral high resolution ones. I know there's a bunch of cameras on that vehicle.

I just saw a newslet on the local news here that says the cameras (which ones) were developed at Western Washington State University in Ellensburg.

 

[feralkid]

or maybe Poe Damren from Star Wars!

And here I be thinkin' he means Pieces Of Eight. Argh.

 

[hal2kilo]

And here I be thinkin' he means Pieces Of Eight. Argh.

Peace On Earth, Purity Of Essence

 

[zinfamous]

Just occurred to me that for billions of years Mars was untouched by any life form and only recently did humans decide to start dumping garbage on it.
Oh well.

oh? It's all fun and games until this thing starts sending back photos of black goo containers

 

[alien42]

this gives me the chills, can't wait till we get the HD video of the landing.

also, the first full color photo from the surface.

 

[BUTCH1]

It's amazing to me just how many things have to go perfectly for the "sky crane" method to even work, the track record for Mars landings is not even 50% success and we just landed a rover the size of a small SUV without so much as a scratch on her, all done autonomously no less, great job NASA engineers!.

 

[alien42]

It's amazing to me just how many things have to go perfectly for the "sky crane" method to even work, the track record for Mars landings is not even 50% success and we just landed a rover the size of a small SUV without so much as a scratch on her, all done autonomously no less, great job NASA engineers!.

NASA's track record for Mars landers and orbiters in the past 2 decades is 100%. JPL is amazing.

 

[feralkid]

Peace On Earth, Purity Of Essence

Please make me a drink of grain alcohol and rainwater, and help yourself to whatever you'd like.

 

[cytg111]

Its almost like they took a page out of a spacex landing with that thing...

 

[woolfe9998]

NASA's track record for Mars landers and orbiters in the past 2 decades is 100%. JPL is amazing.

Correct. It's all the other countries who keep failing to land.

 

[sportage]

Oh come on now.... Obviously taken in someone's garage.

 

[alien42]

Its almost like they took a page out of a spacex landing with that thing...

JPL was landing on Mars long before SpaceX was landing on Earth. that being said, i look forward to the day that SpaceX lands on Mars.

 

[sportage]

So they DID make it after all?

 

[cytg111]

JPL was landing on Mars long before SpaceX was landing on Earth. that being said, i look forward to the day that SpaceX lands on Mars.

Sure, I was thinking about using rockets to slow down descent.

 

[woolfe9998]

The helicopter the rover carries sent a message to earth relayed through the MRO. It appears to be functional and undamaged, but they haven't tried to fly it yet. Pretty cool.

Ingenuity helicopter phones home from Mars | CNN

The Ingenuity helicopter, sidekick and traveling companion to NASA's Perseverance rover, has checked in with a good report and is "operating as expected," according to the agency. It will be the first helicopter to fly on another planet.

www.cnn.com

 

[Meghan54]

The helicopter the rover carries sent a message to earth relayed through the MRO. It appears to be functional and undamaged, but they haven't tried to fly it yet. Pretty cool.

Ingenuity helicopter phones home from Mars | CNN

The Ingenuity helicopter, sidekick and traveling companion to NASA's Perseverance rover, has checked in with a good report and is "operating as expected," according to the agency. It will be the first helicopter to fly on another planet.

www.cnn.com

According to your linked article, it won't fly for a month or two....and won't even detach from the rover until the copter's batteries have been charged sufficiently enough to allow the copter to "live" independently from the rover, as once the copter detaches from the rover's belly, it's completely on its own.

As an aside...from what I understand, the Perseverance rover is built mostly from Curiosity's spare parts. Waste not, want not...and that was how NASA "afforded" the Perseverance rover.

 

[woolfe9998]

According to your linked article, it won't fly for a month or two....and won't even detach from the rover until the copter's batteries have been charged sufficiently enough to allow the copter to "live" independently from the rover, as once the copter detaches from the rover's belly, it's completely on its own.

Yep, the RTG for the rover is 110 watts only, which just barely powers the rover's functions. Anything that has to be charged will take awhile.

 

[Artorias]

Hopefully in my lifetime well be able to have automated greenhouse on Mars, starting the seeding process for creating a luscious green planet.

 

[IronWing]

Hopefully in my lifetime well be able to have automated greenhouse on Mars, starting the seeding process for creating a luscious green planet.

I just want a trampoline center on Mars: bouncy, bouncy, bouncy.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Hopefully in my lifetime well be able to have automated greenhouse on Mars, starting the seeding process for creating a luscious green planet.

That would be quite the sight. Given the exponential nature of technology, I wouldn't put it out of the realm of possibility

 

[BUTCH1]

Hopefully in my lifetime well be able to have automated greenhouse on Mars, starting the seeding process for creating a luscious green planet.

Mars has no magnetosphere to protect from radiation and the atmosphere is extremely thin, a "luscious green planet" is a fantasy.