I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to my Locals site. Actually, I would say its our Locals community where we can all share our love, fascination and excitement about things that are happening when it comes to space travel, exploration or just space itself (its big so lots to talk about).
Many of you probably follow all the same people I do on social media when it comes to things that are happening in space. Scott Manley, spaceXcentric, Everyday Astronaut, Marcus House just to name a few though I am thinking about creating a list of all these creators with links to their social media so that if you don’t know about them you can find them. Feel free to repost any of their material here so that others can find it as well as list them in the comments.
My vision for this community was to have a centralized place that one could go to find information on space maybe ask questions, get answers or see something that maybe you didn’t know was a thing. I’m sure this will evolve over time in fact I am hoping it will into something that we all can enjoy and contribute to.
Again, Welcome and I look forward to hearing from you.
John
Alright everyone I finally had time to sit down and download all the raw photos from Ingenuities flight #20. I did 4 renders one at 24 frames/sec then 1/2, 1/4 and 1/8 speed. Personally I am torn between the 1/4 and 1/8 being my favorite so I am going to post the 1/8 here and put the others in a folder in the content area. Flight 20 occurred on Feb 25th or SOL 362 of the Perseverance mission
Enjoy!
Just so you know I am super new to this just started doing this earlier this year. For me here in the PNW it has FINALLY stopped raining and its supposed to be clear for today and all hollows eve tomorrow so it’s a recipe for some great Astrophotography! I will attach a time-lapse that I did in early September and if conditions hold out then I will try to get the galaxy center tonight or tomorrow. If it works out I will share with you all. Have a wonderful holiday weekend! In the mean time here is a little something for you.
So, as it turns out apparently Perseverance has an autopilot feature or as NASA calls it Autonav. Now I am not talking about autopilot as in it flew itself to Mars and even landed all on its own (which by the way I could watch that over and over again and it never gets old) it can actually drive and navigate all on its own as well. Just like a sexy tesla you give it a destination and it uses it’s nav cameras and figures out a way to get there. Now granted Perseverance drives slow so it doesn’t need to perform lightning speed calculations in fact I’m pretty sure your old flip phone has sufficient if not more computing power than what is needed for Perseverance’s Autonav.
Fun Fact: This is not the first iteration of Autonav Curiosity actually has an older version of this capability (something I never knew) however Perseverance’s version allows it to drive about 5 times faster. Whatever 5 x Slow =
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One of the coolest things I think NASA has done to date was to stick microphones on Perseverance. I want to buy the scientists a beer that had the wherewithal to go "You know what wonder what shit sounds like on Mars". Well as it turns out Mr. Scientists surprisingly enough not how you would think. Now in some cases it does sound "normal" but Ingenuity didn't sound anything like I thought it would and I'm a drone pilot! Now NASA has altered this audio to enhance the sound over the wind and stuff, however you are going to have to listed twice because what you think is background noise is actually Ingenuity but you don't know that until it winds down at the end.
Have a listen!
Starship Launch has been Delayed until Saturday. Will have the feeds up when they are available.
Ok I know it has been about a year and a lot has happened. But hey Starship launching?? Looks like it could be this Friday... If so I will have all the streams I can find up here and listed so you can check them out.
Enjoy!
