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Originally Posted by TrevorW
I watched that (it's not true video) and its just bad, surely in this day and age they could have captured video to show the tethered drop etc.
An amazing achievement no doubt but IMO they could have done more to capture public interest
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Are you serious?
It's a rough animation made from a few of the frames currently stored in the rower. Personally I'm grateful that they provide this spectacular view within 24 hours of the landing.
In reality there are around 1500 frames of the descent in 1600x1200 full colour without compression artifacts, but they are not coming down yet because there is higher priority data they need first. So the final version will be much much better, but right now they just have other priorities.
While I would certainly love to see videos of every aspect of the landing etc then remember that every 'gadget' mounted on the rower will detract from the real science which can be done on the mission. The science payload is 75kgs split among 10 instruments. This is out of ~900kgs total weight of the rower. So if you want to add more gadgets to provide fun views of ie. the tethered descent then other more important science objectives would have to give...