Can you summarize preliminary spacecraft and rover data acquisition, downlink and storage plans for the first 2-sols?
The project is in the preliminary stages of defining the data acquisition, downlink and storage plans for the prime mission. The first 2 sols have received the most attention because of their criticality for mission success. On sol 1 roughly 20 Mbits of data are expected to be returned through 3 high-gain and 1 low-gain antenna downlinks. The most important activities are to drive the rover off the solar panel; to return entry, descent and landing engineering and science data; and obtain and downlink IMP images of the martian surface prior to deployment of the IMP mast at the end of the day. To safely drive the rover off the lander requires images (rover deployment mosaics – lossy, compressed mosaics in stereo of the rover and the area where the ramps will unfurl) be taken before and after ramp deployment. A mission success panorama is also taken (a lossy mono color mosaic of the rover and the surface of Mars). Within this panorama is a lossless strip from the spacecraft to the horizon
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