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CBS News published a short video discussion on China's landing of a rover on Mars in the first try... As I watched and listened to this video, amid having watched several videos published by the China space agency, I am of the opinion that this hasn't happened... Now why would I believe that.. First, every video I watched relative to the landing of their rover appears to be an animation, not real video or fact... We really won't know what China's Rover's status is until we see some video footage of the Martian surface at ground level...
If any of you have opinions on this I would be very interested in reading your comments... Just add a comment or two on what you believe to be true and if you have seen any video of Mars published by China that refutes my assessment...
If, in fact, China does have a "Working Rover", then I congratulate them, but will reserve judgement until I see quality that is equal to or better than that shown us by NASA...
Kerry
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CBS News published a short video discussion on China's landing of a rover on Mars in the first try... As I watched and listened to this video, amid having watched several videos published by the China space agency, I am of the opinion that this hasn't happened... Now why would I believe that.. First, every video I watched relative to the landing of their rover appears to be an animation, not real video or fact... We really won't know what China's Rover's status is until we see some video footage of the Martian surface at ground level...
If any of you have opinions on this I would be very interested in reading your comments... Just add a comment or two on what you believe to be true and if you have seen any video of Mars published by China that refutes my assessment...
If, in fact, China does have a "Working Rover", then I congratulate them, but will reserve judgement until I see quality that is equal to or better than that shown us by NASA...
Kerry
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Thank you for the video share from YouTube brother Sgt (Join to see) , have a great Monday afternoon brother.
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Sgt (Join to see) - Hmm . . . with China not being transparent about much of anything, I am comfortable not having an opinion without confirmation. I agree that it appears to be an animation. However, doesn't it seem that our Mars Orbiters (or someone else;s) would be able to confirm whether or not China's rover made it in one piece and is operational?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mars_orbiters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mars_orbiters
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Sgt (Join to see)
Perhaps, SGT Mary G., but there are a number of variables and timing... My guess is that if/when the China Rover commences data transmission, we should be able to detect or pick it up... So far there has been no map published (that I know of), which shows where all the landers and rovers are dispersed, including China's... Time will tell, of course...
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SGT Mary G.
Yes, Sgt (Join to see) - I agree it would be easier to pick up a transmission signal, then once it is located maybe get a look at it from photos of an Orbiter. I hope if there are transmissions that China will share some of what the Rover is finding. Time, indeed, will tell.
Here's a map for you!
https://www.planetary.org/articles/map-every-mars-landing-attempt
Here's a map for you!
https://www.planetary.org/articles/map-every-mars-landing-attempt
Our New Map of Every Mars Landing Attempt, Ever
The Planetary Society has a new improved guide to all the places we've landed—or crashed—on Mars, plus planned locations for the upcoming Perseverance, Tianwen-1, and Rosalind Franklin rover missions.
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SPC Michael Terrell
SGT Mary G. - NASA's telemetry systems can log the undecoded signals for later decoding. They still use a 70MHz center frequency output to drive data recorders. This allows for many channels of data to be decoded, one at a time, rather than all in real time. It cuts a huge overhead from the equipment costs, and allows archival of missions.
These data loggers came fro RADAR designs, where a site could record what their system picked up, for later recall.
These data loggers came fro RADAR designs, where a site could record what their system picked up, for later recall.
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