{"id":5129,"date":"2017-11-02T17:08:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T17:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=5129"},"modified":"2017-11-02T17:08:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T17:08:46","slug":"nasas-2020-mars-rover-23-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/11\/02\/nasas-2020-mars-rover-23-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s 2020 Mars rover to have 23 \u2018eyes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA said its Mars 2020 mission will have more \u201ceyes\u201d than any rover before it &#8211; a grand total of 23, to create sweeping panoramas, reveal obstacles, study the atmosphere and assist science instruments.<!--more-->They will provide dramatic views during the rover\u2019s descent to Mars and be the first to capture images of a parachute as it opens on another planet.<\/p>\n<p>There will even be a camera inside the rover\u2019s body, which will study samples as they are stored and left on the surface for collection by a future mission, NASA said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>When NASA\u2019s Mars Pathfinder touched down in 1997, it had five cameras. The subsequent Spirit and Opportunity rovers were designed with 10 cameras each, including on their landers. The Curiosity rover has 17 cameras.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCamera technology keeps improving,\u201d said Justin Maki of NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach successive mission is able to utilise these improvements, with better performance and lower cost,\u201d Maki said.<\/p>\n<p>The cameras on 2020 will include more colour and 3-D imaging than on Curiosity, said Jim Bell of Arizona State University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoutinely using 3-D images at high resolution could pay off in a big way,\u201d Bell said. \u201cThey\u2019re useful for both long-range and near-field science targets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>IANS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Picture courtesy: Alamy<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA said its Mars 2020 mission will have more \u201ceyes\u201d than any rover before it &#8211; a grand total of 23, to create sweeping panoramas, reveal obstacles, study the atmosphere and assist science instruments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[103,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5132,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129\/revisions\/5132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}