How can Nasa stream the Curiosity (Mars Rovers) Live?

Question

Will they just stream scientist on Earth watching it or landing it, or can they actually get some live footage? BTW this is going to be so amazing and interesting!!

Answer 1

How can Nasa stream the Curiosity (Mars Rovers) Live?How can Nasa stream the Curiosity (Mars Rovers) Live?



They don't.

They'll be watching it unfold just like you, because it's too late to do anything about it; think about it as watching it TiVo'ed, and you'll be watching what they're watching as they receive it, as if you were peeking into their control room. When they start receiving the signals, the rover will be either OK or burning on Mars.



More details here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISmWAyQxqqs

This is explained in the first minute of the video.

Answer 2

NASA TV will cover the landing, also carried on the NASA website, spaceflightnow.com usually carries such events as well. During descent and landing there will be telemetry of the landing relayed through the Odyssey orbiter. There actually is an instrument called Mars Descent Imager (MARDI), which will be collecting images after the heat shield is jettisoned during descent, all the way to the surface. These images are not sent in real time, but are stored onboard and will be returned to earth after the landing. There was a similar camera on the Spirit and Opportunity rovers, but they were not turned on due to an interference problem between the camera and other rover systems.

Answer 3

I watched the landings of the Spirit and Opportunity rovers in January 2004, and they showed mission control at JPL in Pasadena leading up to the landing. Of course, there were no live images of the landing itself, since there was no camera waiting on Mars, and no external camera on the lander, as was used on the Apollo landings on the Moon. There was also a delay before they received confirmation of landing because of the travel time of radio transmissions from Mars. They did stream the first images about an hour after landing, but I gather that with Curiosity, it will be a lot longer before the first images are received. We also saw Arnold Schwarzenegger, then only in office for a couple of months, arriving at JPL to congratulate the team.



There's an awful "white knuckle" period between the actual landing, and the first telemetry indicating a successful landing, what NASA and JPL are terming "the seven minutes of terror"!

Answer 4

Well, technically it will be a few minutes behind due to the time taken for the radiowaves to return, but it's effectively live. It will be HD footage.



In fact, you can actually get an app called "Mars images' in which you get about 10 live images of Mar's surface from the rovers each day.

Answer 5

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