"You can't just shoot a hole into the surface of Mars!" Perseverance objective: "Shoot a hole in Mars."

“Our tools are no longer just about survival but curiosity” Incidentally, “Curiosity” is the name of one of the Mars rovers… oh, I see what you did there!

When I did geological surveys at university, I and other geologists also often happened to carry rocks around and drop them off somewhere else, so the rover is just behaving like regular geologists do, lol

You had me worried that ingenuity had broke 😢 I know it will eventually but the fact that this tiny machine keeps going on one of the unforgiving and harshest terrains is just motivational

This started off as a channel that I would turn on at the end of my day to help relax and and even fall asleep. The calm delivery of information that i kind of understand was so relaxing and has easily become one of my channels with notifications on. Keep up the great work king

im glad i came across your channel Astrum, its really nice to have a good channel for space stuff.

simply put, this is one of the best ways to keep informed on the latest discoveries from our solar system probes.

Your narrative on the two robotic explorers brought a tear to my eye. Very good job. That scene where they both set off once again on their journey near the end, especially, around 10:55

Listen these engineers are some of the most brilliant. To accomplish what they have so far is absolutely insane. One thing though, maybe next time make a tiny dust solar panel wiper. They have them on car headlights now. Lol

always look forward to a new astrum video, loving these series you've got going!

You can't help but think of these things as human kind of And it is sad when they finally go off it's like losing a short term friend

Excellent video. I wondered what happened to Ingenuity. Overall, it looks like our space probes and robots last longer than intended.

Amazing 🤩 awesome documentary 💗 very very informative and nice speech. So much to learn

I love your videos. Absolutely amazing and I learn so much. Thank you for what you do. You rock

It's a good thing Perseverance can't feel pain(that we know of) because I imagine it would be really lonely. With only it's dead/dying counterparts. Keep moving lil' buddy.

I love how he pronounces "Jezero Crater" correctly! (It is pronounced Yezero, not Jezero, as many often say)

Your videos are so calming... as always!

Happy new year thank you for another year of great videos and more to come.

This is a very informative video I love it thank you

lets go new vid! astrum is amazing!

Bravo. Very well done. Thank you.

It's almost like these machines are surviving on their own world. One machine waits to check if it's wee friends will live.

Thank you so much!

Solar panels and dust always seems to be the reason missions don't last longer on Mars, you'd think they would design a specific shape or dust resistant properties or even a fan jet arm to blow them clean. Interesting this has not been tackled yet.

Incredible!

Thank you Alex

Hell yeah a new astrum video yodelayhehoo

Perhaps for future missions if they continue to send up pairs of bots, they could create a system where the bots can help to clean each other.

i see a lot of comments every time asking about wipers for dust. i did have the same question but were talking about nasa engineers here. if they could they would. they have a reason why they haven’t. and there are alot of possible reasons why explained in the comments here.

From 10:04 - The Ingenuity helicopter began to malfunction because of dust covering its solar panels. But surely this should have been foreseen - couldn't a small windshield wiper, or something similar, have been fitted to it, to keep the panels clean?

With all the engineering in to these robots, why didn't they made robo hand with a brush to wipe dust from those solar panels.

To paraphrase all those Star Wars t-shirts, "Perseverance shot first." 😸

If you like this I can recommend the 'Mars Guy' channel too. He offers weekly updates on the activities of these rovers.

Ingenuity might be the best concept test ever

Hi Doc. Have great hollidays.

Great video! You’d think they could figure out a little tiny brush system to wipe off the solar panels..

Love your channel .

The easiest way to succeed in any field is to work on it consistantly, and consistancy is the key to success. I experienced my self. By the way, thanks for the uploads , a fellow creator

Awesome news!

Very nice. Martian ice is like a light bulb for health because knowledge is worth more than a corner to look at. It works

After watching Goodnight Oppy this video made me sad for the little rover lol

Perseverance has acquired a new ally. Rupert the Rock.

One of the solar systems greatest mystery.

A roomba on mars! Awesome!

Could light bursts of the laser charge the Helicopter? Like at Intervalls of few milliseconds so it doesn't have the chance to heat up the solar panel to a melting point?

Always thought a means to clean solar panels on rovers should be specified to extend missions.

Perseverance’s little pet-rock reminds me so much of Wall-e’s pet-insect. I really like the idea of naming it « pet-rock ». But I found it sad that Ingenuity’s batteries has problems. It was fun to see them both, like friends. I just love them. On the next rovers, they should find ways to clean themselves from dusts. It seems so logic.

Very goid video

I loved this video, all your videos are just so damn well done man! Maris is speculated by some to have formed life only 400 million years after it's creation way sooner than our lovely Earth did. This is because it is smaller and as thus lost heat from it's creation faster than Earth did to a habitable and water sustaining level. IIRC it is thought that Mars became geologically inactive, cooled, down and lost liquid water on it's surface entirely around 1.5 billion years ago or so. Meaning life very well could have thrived there for a good 1.8 billion years giving rise to bacterium and plankton type life if life evolved there at an earth similar rate. when I see Mars and really take the vibes, energies, and everything in deep I get the strongest feeling of a history of life, i can't really explain it. I honestly think life was there with a 100% certainty. If only Mars was lucky enough to have captured a satellite that was at least 2000 km in diameter with decent density orbiting ~100k km away. This would have kept Mars's core hot longer from tidal forces flexing and heating the core through friction. This would have kept it geologically active with volcanic eruptions constantly resupplying gases to the atmosphere. If this were the case life would still exist there and who knows how much it would have evolved... maybe even intelligent life?! It's really a shame it had to go down in the manner in which it did. Mars only captured two asteroid sized satellites ugh.

i love how much "personality" robots on a whole other planet have

Surprised a method of blowing the dust from the solar panels wasn't built-in to Ingenuity or the Perseverance Rover. Certainly should be included on any future missions utilizing solar power.

Your thumbnail is giving me life rn lol. Preemptive strike on Mars is right. On the off-chance there is life there we haven't found yet we need to make sure democracy and freedom are locked and loaded for deployment 😎

Another interesting thing about SuperCam - it's French-made!

Shooting Rocks ZAPP!

Could future Mars vehicles carry some sort of brush to clean it's solar panels periodically or when they need it? Maybe a windshield wiper type of devise, maybe even squirt some cleaning fluid then wipe them off.

They should have renamed that little chopper to “Johnny Five” because it’s “Holding on for a Hero…” 😂

Isn't it possible to have a tiny compressor in Perseverance and all other rovers and a small tube that allows them to use compressed marsian air to clean their solar panels?

We need to name the pet rock

An honest question as I have zero mechanical knowledge: if dust creates so much problem for these rovers and helicopters, why can't they implement some sort of cleaning mechanism that clears the solar panels?

Fantastic Video.

Cutest friendship ever

10:40 -40 Celsius, wonder why they picked that number? 👀 at you 🇺🇸

ALL the Mars rovers have suffered from the same problem of dust on the solar collectors. It seems to me, that it should not be beyond the wit of man, and also, a priority, to devise a system to periodically clean the dust off the collectors. This could be done in several ways. Either by inverting the collectors, so the dust falls off, or maybe by just blowing the dust away, with something like a miniature leaf blower. Wiping would not be good as this would scratch the collectors. Maybe just tilting them a little, and either vibrating them, or a small 'hammer' shock, would work, or maybe electrostatic repulsion. Maybe there's a surface treatment that would facilitate dust rejection. It would need tests to ascertain the most efficient and least power usage system. Perhaps something from nature, like dragonfly, butterfly wings, or some other insect, could give the answer. .

Perseverance video: *exists* Also Perseverance video: *has a thumbnail which is a photo taken by Curiosity*

Why can't the dust be blown off the solar panels once the dust storms end. Would the weight of such a device be too great to include?

I just have one burning question... what's the name given to the pet rock by the NASA scientists ?

what was the purple rock made of?

Perseverance isn’t there to collect samples. It’s there to take prisoners.

With astrum I feel I'm out in space

This is another argument for solar panels that can clean the dust off themselves. Perhaps like leaves, small holes, with a cap to disperse a gas can blow dust off. A simple fan system could blow clear the most productive areas of the panels?

PEW PEW PEW ! !

What's stopping NASA from adding some equipment to remove dust from solar panels, such as a wiper or even an air compressor?

hi

I remember Dr. Melissa Tanner tried to explain a few things to me.

amazing all of this tech yet no solar panel wiper brush mechanism....

Is there any reason you haven’t done any videos on Curiosity recently?

A major innovation for future rovers: bring a small broom to get that pesky dust off the solar cells ;)

it's an erase against time. noice

why wasnt the rover equiped with a cleaning mode for both it and the chopper ?

I'm telling you, man. The mars rovers are sentient

Need a dust blower in the next rover.

Aliens!

Now the question is, what has it found at the delta?

What kind of gum were they using?

Couldn't they have some of the solar panels on the wings, so they self clean as they fly?

soooo what did it shoot

At 5:07, what's up with that guy's glasses?

That "pet rock" is an alien spy.

9.09mins. Who took the photo?

Pet rock

I like to know if they found anything at all on Mars anything besides rocks and sand

Even robots need friends 😊

I like to think that maybe out life originated on Mars then found its way here. Then an asteroid impact happens on Earth causing an ancient tardigrade to make the trip from Earth back to Mars lol

The sad part is that Perseverance's little buddy is nearly dead, and it will be all alone soon.

Funny enough, I look out the window while watching this video and there's Mars in the sky.

👍🖖🏼

too bad rover didnt have some kinda air pressure to blow off the dust off its little flyer buddy so it could keep charged

The mystery is who keeps cleaning this rover

Shooting?

I wanna know what the pet rock’s name is!!