Who's watching the Mars Rover landing?

[kbaxter60]

I am watching this feed at Youtube. Should be some great imaging coming:

 

[Hoji]

Will they finally get a picture of Neil Armstrong’s flag?

 

[Texas_Lone_Ranger]

We just sent COVID to Mars....

 

[MTA]

Will they finally get a picture of Neil Armstrong’s flag?

I think its rolled up in a storage room somewhere in hollywood

 

[toddnjoyce]

Wife watched it and called me in for the highlights. That thing was dropping like a rock until it did the clamshell separation and essentially turned itself into both a Sikorsky S-64 and payload, which I thought was pretty a damn elegant way to stick the landing.

 

[kbaxter60]

Will they finally get a picture of Neil Armstrong’s flag?

That would take one hell of a telephoto lens.

 

[kbaxter60]

Wife watched it and called me in for the highlights. That thing was dropping like a rock until it did the clamshell separation and essentially turned itself into both a Sikorsky S-64 and payload, which I thought was pretty a damn elegant way to stick the landing.

Did it lower the rover from a hover? I saw a graphic a while back and cannot remember.

 

[Hoji]

That would take one hell of a telephoto lens.

Shelia Jackson Lee joke

 

[kbaxter60]

Shelia Jackson Lee joke

Ah, right. I had forgotten about that. I am more of a Hank Johnson fan...
You know, giant and midgets and such.

 

[popper]

Was it real or simulation landing? Cameras usually record and wait to transmit. Then NASA has to reconstruct before release.

 

[striker55]

Yes watched it yesterday. Next step is getting a soil sample putting it on the surface where it will be picked up and a rocket brings it back to Earth, pretty amazing.

 

[kbaxter60]

Was it real or simulation landing? Cameras usually record and wait to transmit. Then NASA has to reconstruct before release.

They had some really amazing simulations. They also had some pictures from an orbiting platform, one showing the descent under the 'chute. And some early pics already transmitted of the landscape. I don't think it's waiting, except that more pics will be coming.

 

[candcallen]

Waiting for EDL video n sound.

 

[sidebite252]

The first photos have arrived back on earth

 

[striker55]

Sound from Mars https://www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproj...rst-sounds-ever-recorded-surface-mars-rcna303

 

[candcallen]

The first photos have arrived back on earth

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That's an old rover.

 

[candcallen]

Got to see EDL video. Pretty cool.

SN10 might launch tomorrow if static fire goes well today.

 

[popper]

Good one Sidebite. Wind sounds just like it does in Texas. Dry and dusty like Texas, even has potholes too. You really expect Mars to be made of different stuff? Another expensive hunk of scrap on Mars.

 

[Lonesome Dove]

Rather watch RC planes.

 

[striker55]

Rather watch RC planes.

Bomber Field in Monaville has some good shows.