Originally published at: Mars Perseverance: What we know so far | Boing Boing
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“Hello, Wonderful Person!” (Anton Petrov)
I subscribe to Anton’s youtube channel, and he consistently posts fascinating, well-researched topics.
Try also “Cool Worlds” presented by Dr. David Kipping; it’s the youtube channel for the astronomy dept. at Columbia University. The only problem with Dr. Kipping, is that even though he explains concepts in a very clear and understandable manner, his voice is so beautifully soft, and melodic, I tend to drift off.
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Makes you proud to be a member of the species that could do this.
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I know! In just over 100 years, we’ve gone from the first airplanes, to sending probes outside the solar system.
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NASA sends nuclear tank 293 million miles to Mars, misses landing spot by just five metres. Now watch its video
Not really that much new information - I just really like the headline.
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ok…so, the 360 degree video wasnt enough for me and given the fact, that perseverance got every camera as a stereo-rig, I went to
and downloaded 180 left/right pictures from the mastcam-z and made a stereoscopic 360 degree compositing with MS Image Composite Editor (only thing which is not entirely made out of photos is the sky, cause there werent any, so I cloned most of it, sundisk is also just made up), following picture is halfsize as preview due to the upload-limitations of the board :
and here is the direct link to the via right-click downloadable full-hires version:
its made as overLeftEye/underRightEye standard-format for VR with 8000x4500 pixels, so its as sharp as it gets; you can watch this via sideloading in oculus, vive and every cardboard-based viewer on your phone that also loads pictures (not just videos).
I use for example the VR media player on android, its simple, stable, small, does a very good job on anti-drifting and its free without any ads:
start the app, tap on the cardboard-viewer-symbol in the right upper corne to provide stereo-vision, tap on the menu-bar in the left upper corner, open the gallery on the left, load the picture, choose 360°-lens and over/under, put your phone in your cardboard/samsung gear vr/whatever viewer and enyoy your trip into the jezero-crater in glourious 360 degree 3D.
(as the stereo-mastcam-cameras are 24 cm apart, you will notice a kind of enhanced depth-perception of the landscape as our eyes are only 7-8 cm apart.)
feel free to share and to spread.
edit/correction of choosing lens in vr-app
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its as sharp as it gets
I was wrong; made a new version in 14K:
better color shading, much less banding in sky, better detail, no visible seam anymore behind and much better left/right alignment for less eyestrain. loads just fine in VR media player. enjoy.
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nice one
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Cool. I only tried to make a “wee planet” using polar coordinates in Gimp.
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It is. I just wish we could get our shit together here on earth…
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when is the copter scheduled to fly?
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At around 3:00 he claims that this is the “first time” we’ve seen a heat shield separate, but that’s incorrect.
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The scientists and engineers hope to fly the module for 20 or 30 seconds next month.
That’s what the APOD site said: “there has never been anything like her before. After being deployed, possibly in April”.
Imagine forgetting to take off the lens cap…
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