Like Trevor says a small amount of video from the rover would have been great but also an alternative I would have thought that NASA would have been very keen to capture would be taken from the Sky Crane itself showing the tethered lowering of the rover, touch down and fly away from the crane.
We all know how small cameras can be made these days that give very good quality video and who says all this data has to come back via one data link.
One would assume they have at least a double redundancy if not triple.
Do you honestly think they would rely on a single link, I think not.
Anyway this is all getting a bit silly banging on at each other.
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