a short snatch of video from Perseverance, which was watching and snapping away from a distance of 65m. Longer sequences should become available in due course.
It looks fake because first it's on the ground, then it's suddenly hovering in a repeat-ish loop kind of way, and then it's suddenly back on the ground again. It's like a Geocities era animation.
I'm not saying it is fake, only that it looks that way initially, and some will get the wrong impression.
Keep in mind that initial transmissions are usually like this. There's likely a lot more signal than that, but it has to be transmitted from the surface to Mars orbit and from there to Earth, and what NASA is looking for initially is confirmation that it actually got into the air. Doubtless better video will be coming. It's like why the first images from any landing are always grainy and B&W, as any of us in the computer world know, a greyscale image or a video made up of only a few frames gets transmit
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It looks fake because first it's on the ground, then it's suddenly hovering in a repeat-ish loop kind of way, and then it's suddenly back on the ground again. It's like a Geocities era animation.
I'm not saying it is fake, only that it looks that way initially, and some will get the wrong impression.
"Snatch video"? Um.
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Keep in mind that initial transmissions are usually like this. There's likely a lot more signal than that, but it has to be transmitted from the surface to Mars orbit and from there to Earth, and what NASA is looking for initially is confirmation that it actually got into the air. Doubtless better video will be coming. It's like why the first images from any landing are always grainy and B&W, as any of us in the computer world know, a greyscale image or a video made up of only a few frames gets transmit
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I realize that, but conspiracists either don't know or don't care.
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Then they're not going to accept the full video either. I see little reason to try to please idiots.