Updates NASA's Mars 2020 Rover

[GLS]

Hazcam images received!

 

[BrianJ]

Lookin' good

 

[jarmonik]

Great landing.

 

[Sunhillow]

And the first image from landing site

 

[mahdavi3d]

Very nice ?

 

[streb2001]

 

[GLS]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1362508307529785346

 

[sw34669]

Just stunning to watch live, huge achievement
but .... look at this .... someone at Nasa forgot to load the higher res textures for mars and they are cheating having ground POI's turned on . Damn F9'ers

 

[MarkWatney2015]

I literally didn't sleep tonight just to watch Percy's landing unfold (Sun is rising right now as of writing in my place)

What an amazing landing!

 

[Screamer7]

Congrats NASA. You did it again!

 

[GLS]

The 2 raw images down so far (thumbnails only)...

... plus a partial full version of one of them

They should be posted here as they arrive: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/
Looks like a few big rocks not far away... at least they are not under the rover.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

So they got the sky crane maneuver to work...twice.

I barely got my head around all of the things that had to go exactly right for them to do it once in 2012.

Now we have a freaking helicopter on Mars.

Amazing, absolutely amazing.

 

[Keatah]

Anyone know how close Percy came to its intended target? Or was "anywhere in the circle" perfectly good? After all, TRN picked the exact spot in the final moments.. Just wondering how well all that worked.

 

[mahdavi3d]

?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1362484732169232385

 

[Urwumpe]

Anyone know how close Percy came to its intended target? Or was "anywhere in the circle" perfectly good? After all, TRN picked the exact spot in the final moments.. Just wondering how well all that worked.

From what I saw on Twitter late at night (or early in the morning, I don't know), it landed right in the middle of a thin blue zone of good landing site conditions, as intended, but not in the center of the landing ellipse.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1362543584969252864

 

[N_Molson]

Quite interesting that the AI actually selected a safe landing spot. That's another kind of first. Definitively way to go as no live communications are possible, and promising for the exploration of very remote places such as Europa or Titan, where the probe really has to manage itself and be "smart" (has to be able to adapt to the environment)...

 

[4throck]

I think the Chinese moon landers did the same - safe area selection base on descent images.

 

[GLS]

A nice post from Miguel San Martin (one of the EDL geniuses) showing telemetry during entry

https://twitter.com/x/status/1362508825908027393

Notice the Range Error plot on the right: less than 10m during entry!

 

[GLS]

... and HOLY COW!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1362825545227018240

https://twitter.com/x/status/1362829136385896452

https://twitter.com/x/status/1362831783444717568

 

[GLS]

...and even more!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1362839907824136193