Curiosity Rover to land on Mars August 5th, Seven Minutes of Terror, page 1


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reply posted on 30-6-2012 @ 05:05 PM by flexy123
Originally posted by boymonkey74
I will keep my fingers crossed and toes for another of our brave likkle magic spaceship rovers
I just wish they could put a camera on it so we can see it decend in real time.



There are MULTIPLE cameras, and yes, one actually will make pictures while descent:

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MSL Mars Descent Imager (MARDI): During the descent to the Martian surface, MARDI will take color images at 1600×1200 pixels with a 1.3-millisecond exposure time starting at distances of about 3.7 km to near 5 meters from the ground and will take images at a rate of 5 frames per second for about 2 minutes.[57][67]

MARDI has a pixel scale of 1.5 meters at 2 km to 1.5 millimeters at 2 meters and has a 90-degree circular field of view. MARDI will have 8 GB of internal buffer memory which is capable of storing over 4,000 raw images. MARDI imaging will allow the mapping of surrounding terrain and the location of landing.[57] JunoCam, for another spacecraft, is based on MARDI.[68]


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