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This 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…
The 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!
Parallax, maybe, but no wind = no swirling dust or shifting sands, no?
Are those true colors?
Here's an example on the NASA site: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/revealing-what-lies-benea...
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Parallax, maybe, but no wind = no swirling dust or shifting sands, no?
There is in fact wind. Only ~1% as much air as Earth, but it's sufficient to support phenomena like dust devils. https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2005/1... Of course, it's very weak, so it couldn't push over a spacecraft or building like in "The Martian", but I suspect sands shifts on a very slow timescale. I'm not sure.
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Parallax, maybe, but no wind = no swirling dust or shifting sands, no?
There is in fact wind. Only ~1% as much air as Earth, but it's sufficient to support phenomena like dust devils. https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2005/1... Of course, it's very weak, so it couldn't push over a spacecraft or building like in "The Martian", but I suspect sands shifts on a very slow timescale. I'm not sure.
This 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…
OK.
This 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.
This 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.
I'm not sure if panning through static photos Ken Burns-style from Mars qualifies as "Mars in 4K [video]". But I appreciate that it makes these stunning images more accessible to more people.
Does this video make them more accessible? It seems to make them less accessible. It's a video composed of readily-available images from https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images