I appreciate the accompanying geologic info on various sediment and structural explanations which is too often missing.
Mars images rendered in 4K [video]
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#52The narrator explains why getting HD video would be impractical, but I disagree that we get the same experience from panning stills. imagine seeing the swirling dust, shifting sands, the bumps and parallax from a moving rover. that would be so cool!
Very little shifting sands.
Winds in Mars have almost no strength. Air pressure in the Mars surface is very low, something like 1% of Earths. Dust devils and storms are made of extremely fine powder.
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#53Erm... is that a puddle of liquid @ 1:53 or am I seeing things? https://youtu.be/ZEyAs3NWH4A?t=113
It does look there's ripples in it, but I suspect that it's a pattern made from the winds and the angle of the light causing the smooth effect
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#54Interesting facts that I didn't know before seeing this video: - The opportunity rover captured a barren scene which was named Rub Al Khali (Yes! On Mars!), named after the Rub Al Khali desert area which touches UAE, Saudi, Oman and Yemen. (1) (2) - The video says that Mars rovers send back images (not videos) and then those images are stitched together to create videos, because "nothing ever moves on Mars". But I wo…
"There is a beautiful selfie at timestamp 6:41"
Where's the camera in that selfie? Perhaps edited out of the mosiac?
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#55Would love to see some video from there, even if it's not hd or 4k.
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#56This is a really cool video and I don't mean to detract from it, but seeing how its 10 minutes and 8 seconds long annoyed me so much (and not for the reason you think). "10 minutes" is an ad milestone for videos on youtube. I systematically click away and hide videos that are between 10:00 and 10:20 minutes long: They'll almost certainly have been artificially slowed down to match the ad requirements. It's infuriatin…
So they put in effort to make this, you consume it for free and then you complain that they can monetize it? OK.
If you read closely or at all, you'll note that your comment is incorrect.
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#57This is a really cool video and I don't mean to detract from it, but seeing how its 10 minutes and 8 seconds long annoyed me so much (and not for the reason you think). "10 minutes" is an ad milestone for videos on youtube. I systematically click away and hide videos that are between 10:00 and 10:20 minutes long: They'll almost certainly have been artificially slowed down to match the ad requirements. It's infuriatin…
10 minutes is the the milestone for "mid-roll" ads. As far as I can tell, this video has no ads in the middle.
"As far as I can tell" by your comment, you did not watch the video. I didn't even finish half the video, and I stopped it just before the 2nd ad break started.
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#58A lot of people bashing on this, but I think overall it's pretty impressive just showcasing to more people what Mars looks like. I for one was impressed and enjoyed the panoramic effect. Crazy to think Earth might eventually look like Mars.
Anyone bashing on this has absolutely no concept of the scales or engineering that went into this. When I look at these images, even though I've known we had them for a long time, I'm filled with a tiny bit of hope for the future, something I haven't had in all of 2020.
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#59Looks like Utah...
Looks like the Atacama Desert in Chile, which is where NASA tests Mars things.
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#60Being able to see the geology this way is really interesting. Something made the channels you see, something ground the rocks down to a fine dust and even made that huge sand dune, something tossed all those rocks around. I always wonder if you drilled down 100 meters you'd find life of some kind.