(July 30, 2020 at 12:42 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(July 30, 2020 at 8:12 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I’m sure NASA have plans to augment and amplify any sounds that are picked up. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have equipped it with a microphone in the first place.
The overwhelming majority of the photographs we get from space are enhanced for clarity, colour-corrected and so on. I don’t imagine this will be any different.
Boru
Actually, the Phoenix lander of 2007 also carried a microphone with one of its cameras. NASA never actually turn either the microphone Or the camera on during the entire mission.
(July 30, 2020 at 7:51 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: I just hope the supplies get to Watney in time!
Sweet launch! "The Perseverance of Humanity!"
In the novel Watney’s supplies needed a Chinese booster to get into space.
Incidentally there is also a Chinese rover currently on its way to Mars. It was launched days ago and will arrive at Mars within days of the NASA rover. The Chinese rover is unusual in that the landing site is not selected before launch. Apparently the orbiter is suppose to spend 6 month in orbit about Mars looking for a suitable landing site before sending the rover down.
The UAE also have an orbiter on the way.
But I’m actually more interested in Ingenuity than in the rover. Assuming the mission beats the almost 50% failure rate for Mars probes, it’ll be intriguing to see how well a helicopter performs on Mars.
Boru
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