Responsible for operating video equipment, interpreting video data, and ordering additional panoramas from the Lander team.

Jeremy

Michael

Forest

Responsibility: operate classroom video equipment, interpret video data, and order additional panoramas from the Lander team.

Specialty: using mathematics (proportional relationships) and spatial abilities to determine the scale of images seen on video.

Limitations: The Camera Team team did not visit the site where the rover performed its mission. To practice we used the same camera in the classroom as the one used by the Lander Team.

(NASA)

Procedure: We learned the responsibilities of the other teams.
We worked with the Mapping team to determine the scale relationship of the camera. We created a sample rock-field with the Mapping team.

We made a video tape of the site and give it to the Camera Team. We helped with camera settings--zoom level, focus method (fixed or auto). We assisted the Mapping team in making a full-scale model of the "landing site." We worked with the Mapping Team and the Navigation Team during mission to help guide the rover to its destination (which rock to visit).

Hints: We kept it simple. We practiced with pan, zoom, height, and angles so we could advise during mapping and navigation. We measured accurately and carefully when developing the scale for the camera-TV/video relationship.

The above description is a slightly modified version of the Virtual Sojourner Student Activity #1: Driving Blind by Richard Edgerton. On the Live from Earth and Mars Site from K-12 educators, NASA's Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications (IITA) Program and the University of Washington.

TV Monitor output of video camera showing Oak Grover on Mars.