Let's face it, we don't really need 24fps+ footage from the moon. Nothing is changing on a timescale that would be interesting. Even if the cameras are on a rover, take high quality panoramic 360 stereoscopic images every time the rover moves to a new destination. During the course of the next move, it can be uploading that data.

But who are we kidding? A group of internet forum nerds coming up with something that the people at NASA/JPL/ESA/etc haven't already considered?

> Let's face it, we don't really need 24fps+ footage from the moon. Nothing is changing on a timescale that would be interesting.

NASA's funding problems would compound if they took an attitude this naïve during what is largely a PR mission.

I'm naive? What do you expect to see? Just take a still and apply some noise to it, and it'll look "just like" video. I don't know what you're on about, but there's no people in these images. If these were manned landings with expeditions, then great, let's have some video. But that's not what we're talking about. And you know this

> What do you expect to see?

What do the people who are paying for the mission expect to see, is the more meaningful question. NASA's PR department could certainly adopt a strategy of telling the taxpaying public why they are wrong to want what they want, and maybe even mix in some whinging about the available bandwidth, but I expect that is not the best strategy when it comes to congressional funding.

This really does suck, since scientific missions will suffer while this is going on. Screwing up the funding opportunity would suck more in the long run.

(there's a happy medium between 24/7 streaming video and the lame stuff you're proposing, I would think. Occasional short videos for a public with the attention span of a gnat? I am sure NASA has people with opinions on this.)

> And you know this

Persuasive!

There are plans to send people back to the moon.