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Two billion dollars and they couldn't put a color camera on it :-(
by tocomment 14y ago
Two billion dollars and they couldn't put a color camera on it :-(
- chucknelson 14y agoThey have at least one color camera that "is like a consumer point and shoot" on the mast. The pictures released are from the very technically-limited hazard cams, which are really only for the drivers to see what they have to deal with. Within a week we should see some full-color images coming in.
- jasonlotito 14y agoThere is a color camera on it. It's just not deployed yet. https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity/status/232412416728788992 https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity/status/232412416728788992
- steauengeglase 14y agoAs I understand they do, but even if you had it been deployed seconds after it touched down, the wait for returning images would have been a while. Packet radio from that distance is no joke. From Earth I'd rather have a few crappy thumbnails to confirm that the vehicle wasn't upside down or something in a few minutes than something National Geographic worthy in a few days.