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Re:Photo shows Mars rover descent by outworlder on Monday August 06, 2012 @01:46PM (#4346240)
Anyone has any background info on that picture? How did the MRO lock on the descending rover?

Did NASA feed it the correct coordinates beforehand, or it had to somehow autonomously acquire the rover? I suspect the later is possible, as there might be radio contact available in that stage of the reentry, but I really have no idea on how it was actually accomplished.

Re:Photo shows Mars rover descent by markbnine on Monday August 06, 2012 @01:49PM (#4346256)
Here is a link to a Nature blog with some info from Alfred McEwen, the PI on HiRISE:

http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/08/mars-orbiter-plans-for-...