Zhurong Lander/Rover, Surface Operations at Utopia Planitia |
Zhurong Lander/Rover, Surface Operations at Utopia Planitia |
May 14 2021, 05:05 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Per this source, landing currently scheduled for 14 May/2300 UTC. Please post any relevant information and updates here.
GO ZHURONG!!!!! -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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May 17 2021, 07:04 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1089 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Close to Meudon Observatory in France Member No.: 172 |
And remember that the two 1st images taken by Viking Lander 1 just after landing (Sol 0) and received 'live' on Earth weighted only 730 Ko alltogether (*) for transmission through a single orbiter (VO-1) which was also on a very elliptic orbit (32,800 by 1513 km).
The Chinese need a greater transmission capacity to return the hi-res color images they want : so, it will take more time for them to retrieve this much greater amount of data. (*) This looks very primitive compared with today's technologies, but this imaging strategy worked very well (and the media were stunned by the results) |
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