A world first New footage from Mars rendered in stunning 4k|| NASA
A world first. New footage from Mars rendered in
stunning 4K resolution. We also talk about th
The cameras on board the rovers were the height of
technology when the respective missions launched.
A question often asked is:
'Why don't we actually have live video from Mars?'
Credit: NASA
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Although the cameras are high quality, the rate at
which the rovers can send data back to earth is the
biggest challenge. Curiosity can only send data
directly back to earth at 32 kilo-bits per second.
Instead, when the rover can connect to the Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter, we get more favourable
speeds of 2 Megabytes per second.
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However, this link is only available for about 8
minutes each Sol, or Martian day.
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As you would expect, sending HD video at these
speeds would take a long long time. As nothing
really moves on Mars, it makes more sense to take
and send back images.
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