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I think it's important to understand the timeline here. The footage we've all been amazed by was acquired by a collection of slightly-hardened small, light, high-quality commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) cameras, helped by a fast, very-low-power processor (I think a Qualcomm SnapDragon: this processor is much faster than Perseverance's main processors!) and ...
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I guess it adds to the weight and was not considered mission critical,
Short: You answered the question on your own.
Long: You answered the question on your own. Remember KISS! Keep It Simple and Stupid!
PS:
I think they should have been able to fit them on.
"Be able to do something" is not equal with "It is reasonable to do something"
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Will the HiRes camera of the Chinese orbiter be capable of seeing the shadows of the US landers and rovers on Mars?
tl;dr: Yes it can, IF it passes over one of them, and at the right time of day for shadow-making!
But chances are low that they're going to waste time doing that. They have to put a rover safely on the surface and so they will be targeting ...
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The cameras were added so that the engineers can see if everything happened as expected and to inform the technology of future landings. They also serve a public relations use:
While extensive reconstruction of the entire EDL sequence can be done based on telemetry and MEDLI2 data, some phenomena of EDL are best depicted through sight and ...
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The LORRI sensor has a resolution of θ = 5µrad or 1 arcsec per pixel. We can do a simple geometric approach to see which distance x corresponds to a change in the apparent position of a nearby star (say d = 8 ly) of one pixel. This is simply
$\sin \theta \cdot d = x = 2.5~\rm AU$.
That would be the position precision, if the position of at least 2 nearby ...
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