Saturday, 25 May 2019

Mars 2020 mission goes to Death Valley to test landing cameras

The LVS was mounted on a helicopter for the tests

The technology that will guide NASA's Mars 2020 mission to a landing on the surface of Mars began testing recently in the skies over Death Valley in California. Installed in an Airbus helicopter, an engineering prototype of the Lander Vision System (LVS) was put through a series of pre-planned maneuvers designed to test the device's ability to collect and analyze images of the mountainous desert landscape for landing navigation purposes.

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from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2YSP8Hb

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