Mars2020 landing cameras Options

[Stratespace]

I am so enthusiastic about the (proposed) Mars2020 camera suite during EDL, as presented today at IPPW:
- 3 PointGrey Chameleon 3 that will be on the skycrane and look up, to monitor parachute deployment at 150 fps.
- 1 GoPro Hero 4 on the skycrane, looking down to monitor the rover descent and landing
- 1 GoPro Hero 4 on the rover, looking up to monitor the skycrane and fly-away
- 1 GoPro Hero 4 on the rover, looking down like MARDI did on Curiosity
- MARDI, of course.

All GoPro have microphone that will be activated, and have been tested successfully in the proper thermal and radiative environment. We should have some awsome footage if it actually flies.

[deedan06]

Sorry if you guys already know this, but the EDL-Cams are actually still alive! The Rover Down look Camera seems to act as a MARDI succesor, however it takes images during drives. I Have no clue how they manage to transmit over 900 images on one day, probably using video compression. The capability to act fully independent seems to allow them to image while driving. The Rover uplook camera is also still alive and seems to act as skycams pal. I can't see much on the raw images, but if you edit the images togather you probably get better results. The Lander Vison system Camera shows no signs of activity however. The cameras seem to be reactivated around sol 700.

You can look at their images at the row images site, however you have to activate the "show movie frames" box for most of them to show up. If you have a very good internet connection I can also reccomend using this (https://areobrowser.com/#/mode=perseverance&instruments=ED) site to gat an overview and see rough video versions of the imagery. The Sol dates seem to only indicate the date of transmission and not when the images where taken, which is especially noticable for the RDC.

I have found no NASA statement on the surprisingly long live of the cameras although I haven't looked very hard. Once again sorry If I just repeat old info.