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Martin County High School giving back to community this holiday season By Ryan Hughes | December 17, 2020 at 7:00 PM EST - Updated December 18 at 8:47 AM Inside Martin County High School, you could hear the crinkling of wrapping paper inside Mr. Hesslerâs classroom Thursday. âThis is the most weâve ever had,â said Don Hessler. But on Thursday afternoon, senior Erika Van Vliet was the one in charge. âI just didnât want to leave this family hanging, so I knew there was something that could be done and I just spread the word to family, friends, and the community,â said Van Vliet, who is the President of the National Honor Society at Martin High. ....
mechanism and acquired our first molly image on the surface. ken, as you will talk about that just shortly here. we also took what are called dark images from our navigation cameras and the cam so the remote sensing mast, which is this mast, is folded down like this and the cameras are facing down. it allows us to take an image with no light in it to see if there s any bright pixels in there we need to sub tratract a to get the best quality images later when deployed. those executed successfully as well. we then wanted to turn rims on and acquire additional rims data, and that test did not work correctly. the rims instrument has a lot of parameters that control the frequency of its observations, and i think they re taking a close look at whether those parameters are set the way they want to so the rim is taking a look at that right now. the sensor diagnostic that occurred earlier in the day was successful, so we think this is just a function of how their observation tab ....
landings in history. but for now, all eyes on this. the very first video of the curiosity landing, released today. the grainy video was shot onboard moments before touching down. john zarrella and chad myers join me now for more. so, john, let s start with you. you have been following the story very closely and are live at nasa s jetropulsion laboratory in california. tell us about this new veo and what exactly are we seeing? reporter: well, in fact, zoraida, what we re seeing in this video are images taking from the descent camera, made by space industries down in san diego. and the video shows the curiosity rover as it is descending down through the atmosphere to the touchdown on mars. it was 297 images all put together into one continuous short video. and then there was the haz cam image. they finally did get a higher resolution picture which shows mt. sharp in the distance. and that mt. sharp is, of course, critical what they are hoping to do is get over to mt. sh ....