[kgrimes2]

All ya'll complaining that you can take better pictures with your iPhones than Percy can on Mars, please read this: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/cameras/

These are ENGINEERING cameras for taking incredibly precise measurements. Not for populating an Instagram page.

[cco]

If they didn't include at least one Instagram ready camera, the team majorly misstepped on the "secure funding by inspiring a generation" part of NASA's mission.

[kgrimes2]

Go show a kid the EDL video, and then try to say that again with a straight face

[kevin_thibedeau]

Such cameras won't survive the trip through interplanetary space and operate on a planet without a magnetic field.

[centimeter]

> SuperCam fires a laser at mineral targets that are beyond the reach of the rover’s robotic arm, and then analyzes the vaporized rock to reveal its elemental composition. Like the ChemCam on rover Curiosity, SuperCam fires laser pulses at pinpoint areas smaller than 1 millimeter from more than 20 feet (about 7 meters) away.

Holy shit, that rocks.

[kgrimes2]

Pun intended?