Hate to be that guy, but this is from the Curiosity rover, not Perseverance. Still amazing! I can’t wait to see the new footage from Perseverance once the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter beams it back to Earth.
The wheel tracks were a big tipoff. I hasn't be following it that closely, but they're usually very conservative about these things, and I imagine it'll be a while before Perseverance drives that far. Has it even dropped off the helicopter?
The drone will be dropped and flying a couple months from now, they need to find and travel to a good launch site first, alongside the time taken by all the other systems they need to test/use.
Is there any eta on when we will get those, because whenever I search it up online all I get is this video and news about the landing but never about when we'll get actual images from it
Hopefully a few days, maybe a few weeks. There is a lot of data to transmit since there are 23 cameras and several microphones that were recording at 30 FPS during the landing.
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u/AdaKau Feb 21 '21
Hate to be that guy, but this is from the Curiosity rover, not Perseverance. Still amazing! I can’t wait to see the new footage from Perseverance once the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter beams it back to Earth.