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It's not clear if the drone survived. The video is cut right after it should have been hit with the lava.
by csomar 6y ago
It'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