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19:05

The best part of crashing a Mars briefing is you can get in a full 11 minutes of questions before they can start to respond.

Spevacus

19:49

Well that was quick, Tink :/

Tinkeringbell

I didn't delete it, just close.

Spevacus

Yeah that was a self-delete with a dismissive comment.

Tinkeringbell

What's the magic link for meta so though, does it have one?

I thought it was meta.so, but apparently only meta.se works?

Spevacus

Ummm...

Tinkeringbell

It doesn't matter that much, after all the stuff is deleted now ;) But my comment looks weird now XD

Spevacus

19:53

[metaso] links to Meta SE, weirdly enough.

On this site, anyway.

Tinkeringbell

Yeah. That was my line of thinking... XD

I know about [meta.se].

Spevacus

I tried a variety of ways, but it's not listed here either :/

Tinkeringbell

Perhaps [so.meta]

@Spevacus Nope...

Spevacus

Shame. :(

Tinkeringbell

I asked the other mods. Maybe someone is actually smarter than me for once :P

Spevacus

19:59

Impossible :P

Tinkeringbell

Well if I get an answer, I'll let you know tomorrow ;) Good night!

Spevacus

Sleep well!

Rob

20:29

It says (if not those, this): [sitename.meta.se] or [meta.sitename.se] – link to a site-specific Meta site. Link text is "Meta <sitename>".

Ah, I see comment above, not tested exactly.

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Rob

21:39

@rene Perseverance landing video, and follow-up with a play-by-play description of each video (rewind a few minutes to have camera positioning explained):

See Mars Like Never Before! NASA's Perseverance Rover Sends New Video and Images of the Red Planet

►

Over 2800 new images.

rene

22:07

@Rob yeah, I watched the NASA press conference

@Rob cool, I checked an hour ago then it only had 150 images.

Rob

OK, they finished streaming that ~25 minutes ago. There's now over 3500.

rene

The parachute shots and looking up to the sky crane were remarkable shots.

Rob

22:26

Yes. There'll be a more detailed frame by frame analysis in the future.

Now that they've removed the clear lens protector they can get some great photos. They'll be launching a helicopter too.

rene

Yeah, that will be something to look out for as well.

They simply brought a better iPhone 6 to Mars. And added sound recording which is nice.

The forest of Reinstate Monica

@Νеvеrꭑoꭇе haha what

Rob

22:57

@rene The iPhone 6 is 8 megapixels, while the Rover has a SuperCam Spectrometer and two 2 megapixels Mastcam-Z cameras with the following specs:

> "Able to resolve between about 150 microns per pixel (0.15 millimeter or 0.0059 inch) to 7.4 millimeters (0.3 inches) per pixel depending on distance".

That's how they can create 19,776 megapixel 3D images (and videos).

Rob

23:45

They have a number of 5120 x 3840 pixels Engineering Cameras - that's 20MP, without stitching.