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When can we expect any imagery from Perseverance? The Curiosity photos were incredible.

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First few low-res pictures posted here:

I'd bet they post the first high-res pictures once they arrive. The link from Mars to earth is sending a lot of information about what just happened, so understandably bandwidth is pretty saturated

f154hfds|5 years ago

Pictures already coming in to JPL apparently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPrbJ63qUc4

ryankrage77|5 years ago

Probably around 20-30 minutes after it's landed. Perseverance needs to lock onto sattelites that are part of the Deep Space Network for the bandwidth required to send media. It also takes 22 minutes to send a command and get a response back.

ceejayoz|5 years ago

It was already communicating with DSN the whole way down, via one of the orbiters, and "send a pic" was apparently a pre-programmed command not requiring Earth initiation.

comfydragon|5 years ago

We actually got a picture like 3 minutes after landing. (Okay, a picture from shortly after landing.)