Perseverance (Mars) landing - 18th Feb 2021

[Neil]

Very much like Curiosity, Perseverence will be performing an epic Thunderbird'esque landing on Mars, but this time with a bucket load of video footage from onboard, complete with sound. Will be landing 8:45GMT, but I suspect the video footage will take days and days to beam back.

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Epic!

So now we need the video (& audio footage) back and for the onboard little helicopter to work too!

[Neil]

The microphone unfortunately didn't work

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[kidgloves]

Love this.
They have got recordings of the wind after landing though.


https://youtu.be/qtNeZ0u3onw

[Neil]

The atmosphere is 100 thinner than Earth's, so that wind must surely be very gentle?

But then of course you get month(s) long planet effecting dust storms!?

[MinionZombie]

The atmosphere is 100 thinner than Earth's, so that wind must surely be very gentle?

The key flaw in the book/movie "The Martian", hehe. Still, it was an awesome book and movie.

[Neil]

And they're trying to fly a helicopter in that 100 times thinner atmosphere :eek:

[JDP]

http://www.bytewriter.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/curiosity-mars-rover-coke-coca-cola-shiny-object.jpeg

[Neil]

You realise right now, there's a certain group of people buying that photoshop :)

[JDP]

You realise right now, there's a certain group of people buying that photoshop :)

Coca-Cola or Pepsi always get "there" first. Always. In 1987 I was in the middle of the Amazonian territory of Venezuela, accompanying a large group of people (some of them family members) on a botanical expedition, after several hours walking "in the middle of nowhere" (and I mean even-snakes-and-other-wildlife-crawling-out-of-the-wilderness-and-crossing-your-path type of "middle of nowhere") we reached a river crossing that could only be traversed by seeking the help of the few local Indians with their canoes, but yet you could find "Drink Coke/Pepsi" ads around their tiny village.

[Ethan13]

http://www.bytewriter.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/curiosity-mars-rover-coke-coca-cola-shiny-object.jpeg

Not bad. But I think if they took photos in Photoshop, they could do better.
I wonder what success awaits the Martian helicopter. Ingenuity is a completely new type of technology that has been tested only in artificial conditions. Do you know when the first flight will take place?