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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Red Dragon going to Mars

He he

But seriously though, the Red camera is a tremendous sensor for taking moving images. All the sensors we use for probes, aren't they less good than the Dragon? Would it be of any use to utilize Dragon sensor tech on probes like these? I mean, we already have high res photographs, but how does it actually look playing a high resolution video from a planet like Mars? How does the storms look etc. Does NASA or SpaceX even have a video-capable high res sensor?
 
I'm willing to DIT from the final frontier!
 
The problem would be bandwidth. Sure, you can take a dragon to Mars and shoot a time-lapse in 8k 2:1 but getting it back to earth would take weeks of constant transmission. The Curiosity rover already has a high frame rate multispectral stereoscopic HD camera on it's mast, not sure what a power hungry 8k HFR brick of an imager would add. I imagine the curiosity rover was pushing the limits of the bandwidth available to it when it got to Mars, even with continued improvements to bandwidth I'd imagine it's easier to Ship the Cards back to Earth lol
 
I'm sure this will void the warranty.
 
Christoffer Glans said:
He he

But seriously though, the Red camera is a tremendous sensor for taking moving images. All the sensors we use for probes, aren't they less good than the Dragon? Would it be of any use to utilize Dragon sensor tech on probes like these? I mean, we already have high res photographs, but how does it actually look playing a high resolution video from a planet like Mars? How does the storms look etc. Does NASA or SpaceX even have a video-capable high res sensor?
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There are two Epic Dragons on the ISS right now, so the answer is yes! Perhaps there has been discussion to rig a dragon sensor into more a specialised setup for NASA?
 
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