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When can we expect any imagery from Perseverance? The Curiosity photos were incredible.

ryankrage77 6y ago
Probably around 20-30 minutes after it's landed. Perseverance needs to lock onto sattelites that are part of the Deep Space Network for the bandwidth required to send media. It also takes 22 minutes to send a command and get a response back.
- comfydragon 6y ago
  We actually got a picture like 3 minutes after landing. (Okay, a picture from shortly after landing.)
  - someperson 6y ago
    Probably routed through the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Maven and possibly Europe's Mars Express satellites, rather than a direct connection to the Deep Space Network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Reconnaissance_Orbiter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Reconnaissance_Orbiter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAVEN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAVEN
  - shadowgovt 6y ago
    If I understood the livestream correctly, it's because they were able to (maintain|quickly establish) lock to the MRO after touch-down and zip a couple of images up through the "bent-pipe" UHF-to-high-power relay into the Deep Space Network.
    - GeorgeTirebiter 6y ago
      It would seem they had MRO in position to snap a few photos of the landing / descent as well as do the relay.
- ceejayoz 6y ago
  It was already communicating with DSN the whole way down, via one of the orbiters, and "send a pic" was apparently a pre-programmed command not requiring Earth initiation.
f154hfds 6y ago
Pictures already coming in to JPL apparently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPrbJ63qUc4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPrbJ63qUc4
jasonjayr 6y ago
First few low-res pictures posted here: https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere I'd bet they post the first high-res pictures once they arrive. The link from Mars to earth is sending a lot of information about what just happened, so understandably bandwidth is pretty saturated

Probably around 20-30 minutes after it's landed. Perseverance needs to lock onto sattelites that are part of the Deep Space Network for the bandwidth required to send media. It also takes 22 minutes to send a command and get a response back.

comfydragon 6y ago
We actually got a picture like 3 minutes after landing. (Okay, a picture from shortly after landing.)
- someperson 6y ago
  Probably routed through the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Maven and possibly Europe's Mars Express satellites, rather than a direct connection to the Deep Space Network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Reconnaissance_Orbiter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Reconnaissance_Orbiter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAVEN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAVEN
- shadowgovt 6y ago
  If I understood the livestream correctly, it's because they were able to (maintain|quickly establish) lock to the MRO after touch-down and zip a couple of images up through the "bent-pipe" UHF-to-high-power relay into the Deep Space Network.
  - GeorgeTirebiter 6y ago
    It would seem they had MRO in position to snap a few photos of the landing / descent as well as do the relay.
ceejayoz 6y ago
It was already communicating with DSN the whole way down, via one of the orbiters, and "send a pic" was apparently a pre-programmed command not requiring Earth initiation.

f154hfds 6y ago

Pictures already coming in to JPL apparently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPrbJ63qUc4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPrbJ63qUc4

jasonjayr 6y ago

First few low-res pictures posted here: https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere I'd bet they post the first high-res pictures once they arrive. The link from Mars to earth is sending a lot of information about what just happened, so understandably bandwidth is pretty saturated