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I was hoping for the same, but at 9.5km away, and with a decelerating speed of 150m/s we wouldn't see but only a pixel. I wonder if they have the time/it's in

I was hoping for the same, but at 9.5km away, and with a decelerating speed of 150m/s we wouldn't see but only a pixel. I wonder if they have the time/it's in their plan to send the bot over to record where it landed, the state that it's in, etc. If they want to simulate assess the damage, it would be cheaper to make heat shield 50 of them on Earth and drop them from 10-15km. I assume that every minute is gold and they already got a X-days meter-by-meter plan on what to do with little room for free exploration.

Nekhrimah 6y ago
> I wonder if they have the time/it's in their plan to send [Perseverance] over to record where [the heat shield] landed I was thinking the same, but more for the fact that surely the impact has made a hole of some description that could be interesting to look into. Take advantage of the already expended energy to penetrate the surface layers.
- Daniel_sk 6y ago
  But it would be contaminated, toxic and dangerous for the rover (it would contaminate or damage the instruments). Not worth it.