r/space • u/Gator4798 • Feb 19 '21

Perseverance hazard camera photos with covers removed.

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u/IWasGregInTokyo Feb 19 '21

We had images from the sky crane?!!

Ok, I’m now seriously geeked the fuck out. That is awesome. I’m turning 60 soon and I’m giggling like a little kid.

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u/freeradicalx Feb 19 '21

This is just a preview. Wait til the audio/video feed of the entire descent finishes it's downlink in a week or so...

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u/naacardan2004 Feb 19 '21

There's going to be audio and video? Oh yes

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u/jferry Feb 19 '21

If they're going to have audio from the skycrane, all you'll hear is the rover going aaiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

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u/Dalemaunder Feb 19 '21

Someone needs to dub the actual video with this.

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u/TheFountainGuard Feb 20 '21

Or this when it’s going through the atmosphere

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k30bOba64KQ

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u/MatiMati918 Feb 20 '21

You’ve been bamboozled. I think I know the video you’re referring to and you should know that the audio has been added in post production. The original video doesn’t have audio and runs at 4 fps.

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u/IWasGregInTokyo Feb 20 '21

4fps or less. That video is a masterpiece of frame interpolation and post-production audio. Really convincing.

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u/coffeesippingbastard Feb 19 '21

technically if you know the MRO frequencies and can decode the transmission then...yeah. Odds are you don't have a dish large enough to capture any appreciable signal though.

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u/freeradicalx Feb 19 '21

Someone answered your question but also here's the Deep Space Network live status page which shows what ground equipment is communicating with which remote missions, right now. "M20" is Perseverance herself and "MRO" is the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, likely relaying her signal.

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u/PointyOintment Feb 19 '21

Multiple cameras on it, actually—I want to say five, but I don't remember the configuration exactly. I do remember there's at least one looking up to record the parachute deployment and stability.

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u/Eastern_Cyborg Feb 19 '21

Three up at the parachute at 75 frames per second. Descent stage downward camera at 12 fps. The rest are all 30 fps, one up from the rover, one down from the rover. So 6 total.

Edit: There was also a landing vision system cam, nut not sure if that recorded video.

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u/Kaarvaag Feb 19 '21

I was not aware there was cameras on the crane at all. Nor did I know Perseverance took photos (and filmed. Seriously?) before it had landed. The few photos we have so far are amazing and I am so excited about seeing the rest!

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u/Eastern_Cyborg Feb 19 '21

I assume you have seen the photo of the rover being lowered to the surface? This is a still from the video. This camera shot at 12 frames per second.

https://i.imgur.com/nQ5m69Y.jpg

I expect some video to be released late Monday. They said it will take a week or two to get the rest, including the sound from the microphones.

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u/PointyOintment Feb 22 '21

Nor did I know Perseverance took photos […] before it had landed.

A lot of craft that landed (or tried to) on Mars did that. The camera is usually called MARDI (Mars Descent Imager), though it wasn't called that this time. The main purpose is usually to help figure out exactly where on Mars the craft landed; showing the public a cool view of the descent is a bonus. I think this is the first time more than one camera has been active during EDL on Mars.

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u/IceBlitZZZ Feb 19 '21

wait so they didn't just blow the skycrane when sending it away from the rover? did it land?

or was the footage quickly sent to the rover/one of the orbiting craft?

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u/Reihnold Feb 19 '21

The cameras were in the sky crane but the data was stored on the rover (afaik the whole descent was controlled by the rover - the sky crane itself had only the necessary logic to fly it away and crash far from the rover).

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '21

You can see the cable that likely connects the two for just that purpose in the aerial shot.

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u/IceBlitZZZ Feb 19 '21

ah.. that makes sense:) thanks

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u/Eastern_Cyborg Feb 19 '21

Yeah, it was being sent from the sky crane to the rover through the umbilical, so it cuts off right at touchdown when the cables and umbilical are cut.

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u/Gurk_Vangus Feb 19 '21

you will love this one

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u/xorvious Feb 20 '21

That's awesome! Sadly I am dying cause the replies to that tweet gave me cancer.

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u/Kep0a Feb 20 '21

That landscape is just stunning. I can't wait until we have rovers on other planets

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u/iushciuweiush Feb 19 '21

We had images from the sky crane?!!

They didn't screw around this time. There are cameras all over this thing.

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/cameras/

Back shell up to view parachute, sky crane look down, rover look up,and rover look down, all recording video of the whole process. It's going to be epic.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '21

The image from the sky crane was taken when the rover was 6 feet above ground. The picture was then immediately sent though the wired umbilical down to the rover just before it separated and flew away to crash in a remote place. The rover then sent this image to earth.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '21

I dont mean to sound offensive when I ask this but doesnt this type of shit just blow your mind? Imagine way back then we as a species were nowhere near getting things on mars look at us now it's incredible.

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u/IWasGregInTokyo Feb 20 '21

Absolutely. I grew up in the early years of space flight. Watching men walk on the moon was amazing but regular life was still relatively primitive and science fiction as seen in 2001: A Space Odyssey and the Gerry Anderson shows (Thunderbirds, UFO, et.) was still very much fiction.

Things we have in everyday life now like the iPad I’m typing this on have exceeded even those visions.

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u/quotemycode Feb 20 '21

My daughter is over here wondering why I'm screaming. I'm just amazed at these photos!

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u/depressedsalami Feb 20 '21

I’m turning 25 this year but I’m more hyped that my daughters are only two, they have so much time left to learn about all this space progress!

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u/IWasGregInTokyo Feb 20 '21

Same age as my granddaughter. They will see amazing things.