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It's super exciting what they're trying to do (especially exploding a crater, collecting samples from that and returning with them in 2020), but I can't get ove
by piyush_soni 8y ago
It's super exciting what they're trying to do (especially exploding a crater, collecting samples from that and returning with them in 2020), but I can't get over the fact that the pictures are still worse than what a cellphone camera would take 10 years back.
- JoeAltmaier 8y agoIt was designed about that long ago, so that's about right. Also even though the light levels are pretty good (near-earth orbital radius from the sun) its got to capture and transmit pictures using the limited power available on a small spacecraft. The speed of transmission is limited by power and time. So the minimum useful resolution is chosen to allow the most pictures in the limited time available.