This new 4k footage from Mars taken by the Curiosity Rover will leave you in complete awe of ‘The Red Planet’.
Viewing Mars In 4K
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The James Webb Space Telescope will not be in orbit around the Earth, like the Hubble is, rather it will actually orbit the Sun, 1.5 million kms away from the Earth at the second Lagrange point or L2.
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A world first. New footage from Mars rendered in stunning 4K resolution.
Although the cameras are high quality, the rate at which the rovers can send data back to earth is the biggest challenge. Curiosity can only send data directly back to earth at 32 kilo-bits per second.
Instead, when the rover can connect to the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, we get more favourable speeds of 2 Megabytes per second.
However, this link is only available for about 8 minutes each Sol, or Martian day.
As you would expect, sending HD video at these speeds would take a long long time. As nothing really moves on Mars, it makes more sense to take and send back images.
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Next week, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission will practice touching asteroid Bennu one last time before its big moment. The 4-hour excursion will bring the spacecraft to just 131 ft (40 m) above Bennu.
Here’s a preview of the rehearsal: https://go.nasa.gov/30zVOgR
The James Webb Space Telescope will not be in orbit around the Earth, like the Hubble is, rather it will actually orbit the Sun, 1.5 million kms away from the Earth at the second Lagrange point or L2.
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Lava Tubes!!
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Despite their larger size, the researchers believe that the lava tubes are surprisingly stable, meaning settlers wouldn’t have to worry about them collapsing around them.
“Lava tubes could provide stable shields from cosmic and solar radiation and micrometeorite impacts which are often happening on the surfaces of planetary bodies,” European Space Agency researcher Francesco Sauro said in a press release. “Moreover, they have great potential for providing an environment in which temperatures do not vary from day- to night-time.”