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
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.
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.
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)...