• At least 70km of drive until 2028,
• 6 possible landing sites for the Sample Return Lander (#SRL)
• A full cache of 33 samples
Those and much much more, regarding the reality and expectations of both the #Mars2020 and #MSR missions in the Independent Review's Mars Sample Return Report. Get it here:
Before every SRL show Matt would make a soundtrack of this kind of music and blast it at high-volume to the audience just to bring the nervous energy to a peak before the chaos began.
What’s #SRL you may ask? The original “theater of machinery” one might say. Long before Burning Man, or the fire arts movement, there was Mark Pauline and his dangerous flame spewing robots. I was one of his main henchmen for about 5 years.
Peep the history and vids here: https://srl.org
The post confirms that #Perseverance had significant difficulties talking to the #MarsHelicopter in that area, something visibility plots (+below horizon estimates) were suggesting before the flight (https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/110102587325157180). Interestingly, Brown says this is the first time they had a complete blackout of radio communications.
that could increase radio coverage and allow the helicopter team to plan their extended mission relatively independently from both #Perseverance and the future #SRL (Sample Return Lander).
Anyone on here ever see any #SurvivalResearchLaboratories performances? I became fascinated with them in the 1980s & wished I could have seen them, but they were not close by, so alas. I discovered them via a very cool video store called Great Society Video that catered to all things weird, strange, transgressive, & avant garde. At the time #SRL was putting out videos of their shows. I thought they looked awesome. I was also young. 😂