Subj : Re: 7 minutes of terror
To   : August Abolins
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Mon Feb 22 2021 09:52 pm

Hi August,

On 2021-02-21 12:27:00, you wrote to me:

WvV>> ..And it did have a camera!

AA> Yes.. I forgot about that.

WvV>> It took a video of the whole landing procedure that will
WvV>> be published later (probably because it is still being
WvV>> transmitted to earth).

AA> I saw the one pic showing the sky crane cables.  That was a good
AA> quality pic.  I wonder what kind of bandwidth they have for
AA> tranmitting video back to earth.

AA> I was really impressed with the TRNS (terrain relative
AA> navigation solution) radar, to scope out and select the best
AA> landing spot and only having a few seconds to do that, and then
AA> having the jetpack navigate to that spot.

Here's the vid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4czjS9h4Fpg

Impressive!

Bye, Wilfred.

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