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In case anyone doesn’t notice this little detail... right in the last few seconds you can see one of the erupting chunks of lava pass out of the frame in the ve
by techdragon 6y ago
In case anyone doesn’t notice this little detail... right in the last few seconds you can see one of the erupting chunks of lava pass out of the frame in the vertical direction. It looks like the drone made a lucky pass through the top of the erupting lava plume, narrowly missing red hot chunks of lava.
To clarify... it looks like that, can anyone more familiar with the original post confirm more details? Because it could obviously just have been a trick of the drone’s speed combined with the camera field of view just making it look like it whizzed under a chunk of red hot lava... which is still neat camera work... but it would be so much more awesome if it wasn’t just a camera effect and it actually did fly through between erupting chunks of lava.
- csomar 6y agoIt's not clear if the drone survived. The video is cut right after it should have been hit with the lava.
- PUSH_AX 6y agoI'm no expert but I don't know if you could recover the HD version of the footage without the drone coming home, perhaps only the FPV version. Happy to be corrected though.
- olex 6y agoWith DJI FPV, you can get a recording of the HD signal in the goggles. It's not as good as a GoPro/action cam footage recorded on board, but infinitely better than what ground-recorded analog FPV footage looks like.
- phendrenad2 6y agoAlso possible for the drone to fall into lava and still transmit for a few seconds, maybe enough to get the higher-quality buffer?
- ccozan 6y agoThe scene from Terminator II came into my mind!
- dheera 6y agoHighly unlikely you'd have time to transmit footage. Various chips in the drone would go into thermal shut down at 90 C ish. The lithium battery would probably explode shortly after.
- toss1 6y agothe appropriate time scale would more likely be milliseconds
- IgorPartola 6y agoI would be worried the heat would melt the drone even if nothing hit it.
- bruckie 6y agoIt survived, per a UK news interview with the pilot: https://youtu.be/dFUa8yAnD6s?t=77 https://youtu.be/dFUa8yAnD6s?t=77
- mlindner 6y agoIt's not so much that they're red hot it's that they're incredibly heavy. They weigh as much as rock, and they're sticky rocks as they're partially molten. So imagine throwing a rock covered in super glue at a drone and that's the right picture.