If the earth is not available, we create our own.

Because the last available days of testing saturated the testing opportunities on the mars platform, we decided to build our ow earth station (see picture below).

We used the simulink model, adapted it to the camera and it worked very well. This feature gave us the opportunity to test our communication between the earth station and the mars rover. Furthermore, we could check if we were on right “track” regarding the coordinate conversion from the camera to the real world. The artificial lakes were created by using original rover blue screens.