Just watched it. Freakin' awesome.
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Wow!!! That HiRise shot is spectacular!It amazes me what we can do with math. Here's a picture from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which had its camera pointed in just the right direction at the right time, to capture an image of Perseverance under its chute, descending toward the surface.
HiRISE Captured Perseverance During Descent to Mars
The descent stage holding NASA’s Perseverance rover can be seen falling through the Martian atmosphere.www.nasa.gov
And here's a high res hazcam shot... beautiful, and it's from basically the lowest resolution camera on the rover.
Perseverance’s First Full-Color Look at Mars
This is the first high-resolution, color image to be sent back by the Hazard Cameras (Hazcams) on the underside of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover after its landing on Feb. 18, 2021.
I'm sorry, that is waaaaaay beyond my geek level. I would have groked it if I could see binary in 3d. Nice job!Dare Mighty Things
'Dare mighty things': hidden message found on Nasa Mars rover parachute
Social media users say message is encoded in red-and-white pattern on parachute
"Internet sleuths claim to have decoded a hidden message displayed on the parachute that helped Nasa’s Perseverance Rover land safely on Mars last week. They claim that the phrase “Dare mighty things” – used as a motto by Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory – was encoded on the parachute using a pattern representing letters as binary computer code.
Reddit users and social media posters on Twitter noticed that the red-and-white pattern on the parachute looked deliberate, and arrived at the result by using the red to represent the figure one, and the white to represent zero.
Each of the concentric rings in the parachute’s pattern represents one of the words. The zeroes and ones need to be split up into chunks of 10 characters, and from that, adding 64 gives you the computer ASCII code representing a letter. For example, seven white stripes, a red stripe and then two more white stripes represents 0000000100, the binary for four. Adding 64 to that gives 68, the ASCII code for the letter D."
Well, it's not like they have a social life...
2D Radial Binary. Damn, that's far out into geekspace. Like something from Arrival, in terms of weird communication.
The frown response was in a joking manner, I’m in the same club
The frown response was in a joking manner, I’m in the same club
It's a good club. Very few biters.
The data transmission rates from MRO are not that bad, around 2.0 Mb/sec when I looked earlier.
Unfortunately, the constellation is around the wrong planet to be of help to Perseverance.
I forgot all improvements in bandwidth to DSN must be made at the far end only, thanks for the reminder :-D
Hydrazine. I think it was discussed in the press conference. No visible flame typical for this scenario.
Using MRO as a relay has really improved the situation around Mars. That does have a decent data rate and acts as a data cache and relay, greatly improving the throughput of the DSN in that locale. They don't need to have to wait for both Earth and Mars to be facing in the right direction, so transmission windows are more readily available.
Anything more complex than algae or fungi would be mind-blowingly awesome.
If they find anything that resembles stromatolites or layered algal mats, that would blow the top off.
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