alt Hacker NewsThere is something uncanny about the bandwidth and quality of all the artifacts coming from this mission.
I've subsisted on photos from the Apollo missions and artistic renditions for so long that seeing the modern, high resolution real thing to be quite stirring in a way I didn't expect. It actually does make me believe that the future could be quite cool.
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> something uncanny about the bandwidth and quality of all the artifacts coming from this mission
Back in 2019, Robert Zubrin suggested using rovers "to do detailed photography of the [Moon] base area and its surroundings" to "ultimately form the basis of a virtual reality experience that will allow millions of members of the public to participate vicariously in the missions" [1].
[1] https://spacenews.com/op-ed-lunar-gateway-or-moon-direct/
I cannot wait until we get 4k video of people walking on the surface, kicking up dust.
I agree 100%. Seeing the picture of the backside of the moon with the earth in view really drove home that the moon really is just a large rock.
Yeah, I think we got so accustomed to that analog look that seeing them like this feels almost like viewing a World War I photo in full color and 4K.
What? The Apollo photos were with extremely high quality cameras on film. They're incredibly high resolution.
Space monkeys, moon pirates, and a Starbucks in the moon mall.
We haven't even seen the full quality images yet. They've commented that the live feed from the GoPro is a limited bandwidth because they have to share the bandwidth with running the capsule. The images from the Nikons onboard are just scaled down. My initial guess was from an export specifically to get an early dump to get everyone on the ground chomping at the bit something to see. They'll get the full images when the SD cards splash down. When those are released, I'm expecting quite a few OMG images