Re:Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video]
by csomar on Monday March 22, 2021 @06:14AM
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It's not clear if the drone survived. The video is cut right after it should have been hit with the lava.
Re:Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video]
by IgorPartola on Monday March 22, 2021 @08:28AM
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I would be worried the heat would melt the drone even if nothing hit it.
Re:Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video]
by bruckie on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @02:16AM
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It survived, per a UK news interview with the pilot: https://youtu.be/dFUa8yAnD6s?t=77
Re:Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video]
by PUSH_AX on Monday March 22, 2021 @06:17AM
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I'm no expert but I don't know if you could recover the HD version of the footage without the drone coming home, perhaps only the FPV version. Happy to be corrected though.
Re:Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video]
by olex on Monday March 22, 2021 @06:37AM
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With DJI FPV, you can get a recording of the HD signal in the goggles. It's not as good as a GoPro/action cam footage recorded on board, but infinitely better than what ground-recorded analog FPV footage looks like.
Re:Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video]
by phendrenad2 on Monday March 22, 2021 @07:34AM
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Also possible for the drone to fall into lava and still transmit for a few seconds, maybe enough to get the higher-quality buffer?
Re:Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video]
by dheera on Monday March 22, 2021 @01:38PM
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Highly unlikely you'd have time to transmit footage. Various chips in the drone would go into thermal shut down at 90 C ish. The lithium battery would probably explode shortly after.
Re:Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video]
by ccozan on Monday March 22, 2021 @10:52AM
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The scene from Terminator II came into my mind!
Re:Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video]
by toss1 on Monday March 22, 2021 @06:08PM
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the appropriate time scale would more likely be milliseconds
Re:Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video]
by mlindner on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @04:41AM
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It's not so much that they're red hot it's that they're incredibly heavy. They weigh as much as rock, and they're sticky rocks as they're partially molten. So imagine throwing a rock covered in super glue at a drone and that's the right picture.
To clarify... it looks like that, can anyone more familiar with the original post confirm more details? Because it could obviously just have been a trick of the drone’s speed combined with the camera field of view just making it look like it whizzed under a chunk of red hot lava... which is still neat camera work... but it would be so much more awesome if it wasn’t just a camera effect and it actually did fly through between erupting chunks of lava.