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#560
by
Garrett
on 30 Aug, 2012 20:38
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I think it was a "camouflaged" test for audio back-transmission , for future manned missions to Mars.
Sending data is one thing, sending images in another thing, sending audio recording is another thing, sending back audio in realtime will be another thing.
Real-time is meaningless at these distances.
Real-time is not meaningless. Sure, the signal takes 14 or so minutes to get from Mars to Earth, but that doesn't mean it's not real time. Otherwise the notion of real-time wouldn't make sense under any scenario as there is always a signal transmission time. There's no such thing as zero transmission time (with the possible exception of quantum entanglement experiments).
Also why do you think NASA needs to be covert in testing out technologies for future maned missions?
The quotation marks he put around the word "camouflaged" suggests that he doesn't think NASA wanted to be covert. I think he was suggesting that they made use of an actual engineering test to perform some PR.
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#561
by
Bubbinski
on 31 Aug, 2012 05:08
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Today Curiosity drove 70 feet (21 m) as per this link:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=1330Those color Mastcam 100 pics of the Mt. Sharp foothills stunned me when I saw them. They remind me of the scenery on my favorite road - US 89 between Flagstaff and Panguitch, UT. I look forward to what the rover will find in those rocks. And I look forward to the vista the rover will see when she's on that mountain next year.
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#562
by
Norm38
on 04 Sep, 2012 15:13
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I know it hasn't driven much yet, but has a traverse map been started?
I didn't find one on the JPL rover home page.
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#563
by
Kaputnik
on 04 Sep, 2012 19:29
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#564
by
savuporo
on 06 Sep, 2012 00:14
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I think it was a "camouflaged" test for audio back-transmission , for future manned missions to Mars.
Voice codecs are very different from audio codecs, that would be a pretty useless test.
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#565
by
robertross
on 06 Sep, 2012 00:39
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#566
by
cneth
on 06 Sep, 2012 01:37
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I think it was a "camouflaged" test for audio back-transmission , for future manned missions to Mars.
Voice codecs are very different from audio codecs, that would be a pretty useless test.
More to the point, audio is all digital these days. There is no need to test that we can send data back from Mars.
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#567
by
jumpjack
on 06 Sep, 2012 17:00
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#568
by
jumpjack
on 06 Sep, 2012 17:01
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Question time should start 17:30 UT, I'll try to ask explanation about "music test". :-)
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#569
by
jumpjack
on 06 Sep, 2012 17:01
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BTW, currently onair music is very irritating!!!
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#570
by
jumpjack
on 06 Sep, 2012 17:03
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Which address did she say???
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#571
by
jumpjack
on 06 Sep, 2012 17:05
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Getting far from touchdown point.
"Playing" with chemcam.
Checking arm functionalities.
Completing rover checkout and calibration.
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#572
by
jumpjack
on 06 Sep, 2012 17:06
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"Amazing pictures" in an AUDIOconference??? >:-(
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#573
by
jumpjack
on 06 Sep, 2012 17:07
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Ah ok, no people visibile, just MRO picture of landing site, with rover away from touchdown locatoin.
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#574
by
jumpjack
on 06 Sep, 2012 17:07
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New color picture of parachute.
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#575
by
jumpjack
on 06 Sep, 2012 17:08
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Quite an hard hit for a "parachuted" landing!
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#576
by
jumpjack
on 06 Sep, 2012 17:09
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#577
by
jumpjack
on 06 Sep, 2012 17:11
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Describing robotic arm, which has 5 motors / degrees of freedom.
Its instruments:
Drill, Spectrometer (APXS), CHIMRA (sample collector), MAHLI (camera), DRT (dust removal tool)
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#578
by
jumpjack
on 06 Sep, 2012 17:13
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ground samples will be placed on a "playground" before getting inside the rover to be analyzed.
Showing slide with two arm positions, "Ready out", and "Drop sample".
Showing also animation of that, with MAHLI field of view highlighted.
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#579
by
jumpjack
on 06 Sep, 2012 17:14
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Animatoin shows rover moving in a 3d environment textured with real surface pictures taken by MSL.