What’s the crude redaction around the edges? Stage hands who wandered into the shot? Footprints? Fluffy the cat attending the NASA bring-your-pet-to-work day?
Papi
Or, space like.
edalicious
It’s a mosaic made from multiple photos
Boj
Why not just one shot though? Seems a simple thing for the relatively cheap smart phone to do.
Papi
Cos space.
Eoin
+ Nokia 5310
pedeyw
The instrument deployment camera is made to take pretty close up shots to aid instrument deployment. It can’t take wide shot of the entire lander because it’s attached to it and can’t get far enough away, hence the need for a mosaic including the black block down the bottom where the camera is attached to it (it’s a blind spot).
Papi
Pretty much exactly what I said.
Boj
That’s a fair enough explanation cheers, but my question still stands. It’s not like this feature would cost trillions to develop…I have one here in my pocket. Strap it to an extendable aerial from my old boombox and off we go with the rover selfies. These space lads really know how to keep themselves in a job.
Andyourpointiswhatexactly?
It’s all in the eyebrows, isn’t it, Papi?
pedeyw
I guess cos it would serve no real purpose other than being a selfie camera and when you take into consideration that it costs about $20k to send 1kg into space, you can see whey they wouldn’t.
Rob_G
You realise how much we take for granted all of the incredible technology around us when people are nitpicking about a photo that a robot managed to take of itself on Mars…
Boj
grumble grumble…mick wallace…blah blah…fashion sense…
Some people eh?
What’s the crude redaction around the edges? Stage hands who wandered into the shot? Footprints? Fluffy the cat attending the NASA bring-your-pet-to-work day?
Or, space like.
It’s a mosaic made from multiple photos
Why not just one shot though? Seems a simple thing for the relatively cheap smart phone to do.
Cos space.
+ Nokia 5310
The instrument deployment camera is made to take pretty close up shots to aid instrument deployment. It can’t take wide shot of the entire lander because it’s attached to it and can’t get far enough away, hence the need for a mosaic including the black block down the bottom where the camera is attached to it (it’s a blind spot).
Pretty much exactly what I said.
That’s a fair enough explanation cheers, but my question still stands. It’s not like this feature would cost trillions to develop…I have one here in my pocket. Strap it to an extendable aerial from my old boombox and off we go with the rover selfies. These space lads really know how to keep themselves in a job.
It’s all in the eyebrows, isn’t it, Papi?
I guess cos it would serve no real purpose other than being a selfie camera and when you take into consideration that it costs about $20k to send 1kg into space, you can see whey they wouldn’t.
You realise how much we take for granted all of the incredible technology around us when people are nitpicking about a photo that a robot managed to take of itself on Mars…
grumble grumble…mick wallace…blah blah…fashion sense…
Some people eh?