Objectives: Over the past decade numerous studies have provided evidence that memory for highly stressful events is not "flashbulb" in nature, but mutable.
The Things that had reached the ground, the rubber balls and diaries, the paperclips and tape measures, the cameras, pens and purses, were all jabbering away in their groups.
Along with the radar, the rover is packed with Multispectral Camera, Terrain Camera, Mars Surface Composition Detector, Mars Magnetic Field Detector, and Mars Meteorology Monitor.
It just gives you access to the camera, if it were to ask for video as well, it would ask for the microphone first, otherwise video would not be possible.