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Originally Posted by aurora
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Originally Posted by harlequin
If they know where to look. Remember the smaller the object you can see means the smaller the area you can look. And even at that resolution, it might still be difficult to say that x spot really is the lander.
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Just get a room full of grad students and have them start going through the images one at a time... :P |
What that means is the field of view of the camera/sensor is very small, so it will be easier to "miss" objects because you can only image a small area at a time. Without knowing exactly where Beagle 2 is, it's more likely it will be missed. Even if they did know, the pointing accuracy and precision of the sensor would also need to be fine enough to ensure the object in question is captured. MGS sometimes missed its targeted observations (like the "Face" mesa), and they were many meters across.
CJSF