[inamberclad]

Fun fact - the cameras that captures Perseverance's landing are also Linux based and vim is installed - at least on the later model that I worked with.

[zelphirkalt]

Hopefully some engineer on the ground used Emacs to access the command line remotely, to run Vim, so that we are back on equal footing :D

[TheCoreh]

Using it with a 20 minute delay between keystrokes and their results must be interesting

[M95D]

I'm sure they didn't connect to it via the internet to send keystrokes.

[Trekker666]

Huge delays between keypresses is what vi (and vim ofc) was designed for.

[hhh]

What make & model of camera are these?

[kam]

FLIR Chameleon3 connected via USB to a Intel Atom Linux SBC running ffmpeg to encode the video.

See EDLCAM in https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00765-9

[retrochameleon]

I am really surprised they are using essentially off-the-shelf USB cameras. I guess if it works, it works, but surprising that they didn't need to design circuitry to work in a space environment.

I am guessing the requirements for circuitry operating on Mars isn't quite as much as a spacecraft or satellite, but it is still getting hit with cosmic particles and solar radiation with no atmosphere.

[inamberclad]

They're USB cameras. I don't know the vendor, but I worked with 4 cameras wired back to a small Linux computer.