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It crashed minutes after successful deployment of its payload, as planned

Too bad it wasn't planned to land softly.

MY MANWICH!!

That's the moment when the sky crane realized there were in fact no other sky cranes behind the dune to help it land and it had been lied to.

dare to fly riskily

Fly... safely away from Percy, please

more like go become trash elsewhere :D

He didn't say "fly safe" because sky crane is meant to crash

Exactly, CzlowiekImadlo. There's no safety for the sky crane, but at least we can wish it a glorious passage to Valhalla. Actually it just went off to rust somewhere.

I respect this comment. 🤣🤣🤣

I wouldn't be surprised if the name of the fly away program was indeed YEET. To make it official they usually attach a very fake backronym to it, like Your External cranE Termination

Makes me think of that scene with the tow cables in Empire Strikes Back. They should name the next Skycrane after the gunner flying with Wedge Antilles that shot the cable at the ATAT.

Everyone at Ames who spent hours upon hours on the world's largest supersonic parachute: "Am I a joke to you?"

@Johnny Silverhand he said ‘another planet’ bruh 😐

I hope they send something to Venus again and we get to see more pictures from there

@@anonpls9909 I don't think we would see much in Venus weather

Agreed, there's something special about a foreign horizon.

Aqeel Raja I’m guessing Johnny is a flat earther. Complete with requisite misspelling.

It makes the idea of boots on the ground all the more real again.

@@-danR Or, arguably, irrelevant and/or quaintly obsolete. ;-)

agree 100%. Just amazing. Seeing the descent stage hovering was just the coolest thing ever.

better win a pulitzer

The most mindblowing thing about it is that it took over 20 years of landing rovers on mars before they got around to sticking on a couple of "throwaway" camera modules to let the engineers evaluate their landing method, instead of just getting "it worked" or "it didn't work" as a feedback. At least Curiosity could have had all those cameras - it may have made less sense with the "bouncy castle" landing method of the twins in 2004.

Gravity let them down, but the Parachute and the Sky-crane held them aloft long enough to save them.

Atlas gonna give you up, Parachute gonna let you down, Skycrane gonna fly around and desert you.

I believe something like that is NASAs internal moto.

Of course, just like the rick astley paradox

Niether the parachute let them down nor the sky crane the both did their job as expected the paradox is in your head that is incapable of comprending the science behind it.

Hopefully without that high pitched tone.

@@ccarson Should be easy to remove with a notch filter.

Rover roving 10 hours. There, fixed it.

@@ccarson NASA already split the two up on the press conference lol

i knew i'm not the only one thought of this haha

Definitely everyone here

same

I watched Astrums short and left a dislike because it was vertical video. Then I waited for a proper video. Thanks Scott.

@@georgf9279 Thank you for supporting the eradication of vertical video.

I need an excited Scott to commentate on the NFL Super Bowl to explain what's going on... would make the 4 hours fly by! 😁

We have entered the 'post-truth' age of exploration.

Yeah sure it is. Just like the moon landing lol /s

And how could you possibly tell that from this video you puppet

@@CaptainALLRTA Oh man you must be so woke. Tell me more about the flat earth, George Bush and 9/11.

shagged thirty min lol

Are you figuring these out yourself, or using a computer program?

@@InventorZahran haha well looking at the parachute code, all I saw were the "shagged" possibilities, but I used a program for the rest :)

@mug wump nice ones, plus "mighty threading" is so appropriate for the parachute!

Grind meaty thighs. Yess. Ofc

my channel has the title of most viewed video.

I haven’t really seen it until Scott Manley shows me all the stuff I missed.

If you want a better breakdown and some in-depth discussions, be sure to watch the live stream that NASA did on Monday where they revealed all these images.

Yes, I saw the same videos yesterday but got a lot more out of them now.

I heard it was a successful landing and immediately thought "Cool, I'll just wait for Scott to post video with commentary on all the good bits for in depth coverage of the landing."

Manley-rich explanation.

Not to take anything away from Scott’s cogent-as-usual coverage, but if you’d watched the JPL press briefing yesterday morning, you’d have learned all those things - except for the decoding of the parachute riddle! The JPL mission leaders discussed them in detail, and I’m sure Scott himself tuned in to listen before he did his video. What I’m really curious about is whether Scott figured out the parachute code himself, or had ‘inside information’ thru his contacts at JPL... Decoding it wasn’t trivial, or so it seems to me. ;-)

@@claudiusdunclius2045 Did they explain the hydrazine exhaust visual paradox?

Yes I thought that too.

Nothing familiar for our eyes to get scale from.

ikr. Even though I roughly now the distances from further out, like what the radius of the landing site was, how far apart these craters are, it's just so hard if not impossible for me to grasp how far away they were in each situation. Yeah they call it on the radio but it's just so hard to comprehend

Mark watney will be able to plug into it without having to rewire anything

Just don't forget to bring adapter to the latest usb-mini-micro-cxyz your telephone uses

Or maybe there’s an extra one in the Tesla Roadster

and it's powered by an RTG...i wonder how many times you can charge your phone with it

@@frommeslaemmchen Well, based on my recent views & reading this RTG is rated at 110W electric output at launch day. Fuel is pellets of Plutonium-238 with a 74 year 1/2 life (I recalled) vs bomb or reactor grade Pu-239 of 24,000 year 1/2 life, so much greater heat released per day. Assuming a constant linear system output drop over time, it may have 55W output in 74 years, maybe 25W in 150 years, 12W in 225 years? I seriously doubt your cellphone will last that long.😆😆 Hopefully it will be still powering an adjoining educational display at the Marsopolis children's museum by then! 🤔

eh?

@@Jesse__H I think it's a joke

ayy

B E S U R E TO D R I N K Y O U R O V A L T I N E

@@MichaelOnines killroy was here

It would be wrong for a parachute to say, "Never gonna let you down"

But the chute did let them down!

Hey, listen up down there! That thing is called an elevator, not a bathroom!

Hope we don't here that hum from the movie Mission to Mars, otherwise a giant tornado will spin the rover to death.

"test 1... 2... 3... sibilance... sibilance..."

"ERAD? Whats ERAD"? "Dunno, but I've found this funny looking shopping trolley"

@@notmenotme614 No it will be 'tap tap' - nothing. It takes too long to say 'you are on mute'

atleast somthing good came out of cruise missiles

@@guy_in_ashopping_cart-sfs967 I assume you mean besides all of the cool explosions.

@@guy_in_ashopping_cart-sfs967 they got a lot of work done in Iraq 👌

@@EstorilEm He said "something good", there is not good things in wars

@@ArDiaN_Music You mean beside being a catalyst for technological advancement?

E-RAD: electronic radiation Or I just might be hight too

E, rad stuff bro :)

Maybe it's a word scramble? We need to READ!

According to Wikipedia, ERAD is Endoplasmic-reticulum-associated protein degradation.

"Who is LEON?"

And the markings on the chute are rotated in the two different views...

@@Jon1010 yeah it’s really clear that it’s 2 angles

yup the parachute is 2 diff angles and i swear i wathed the nasa press conf. were they played the sounds from the microphone as it came down.

They indeed said during the press conference that there were 3 chute look up cameras, but only 2 of them worked, one failed. So, they probably showed us both views.

@@wulf2121 Yes - I was just pointing out that Scott said there was only one view (at the start of the video)

Huygens also had a microphone and recorded titans wind.

I know. Hearing that over the mechanical sound was just... yea. I don't have words.

He'd be better as a space commenter in space.

definitely best. very good presentation of information

Yeah it was fucking cool mate

Same here, the whole operation is really impressive but when it cut the cables and flew away i lost it, looks so freaking cool!

Where are the cables cut? Next to the rover or next to the sky crane? And if they're cut next to the crane, would that mean having the Perserverance Rover dragging the cables around every time it drives along the Martian surface?

@@davidharrison7014 they are cut by the rover, you can actually see the cut on one of the early pictures.

On the contrary... has been done frequently in military history! As in, “Glorious victory will be ours, troops! Go take that hill!!” Wonder if Scott was riffing off that theme...?

it is not specified whose victory it is flying towards..

Well, he couldn't exactly say "fly safe" now, could he?

@@claudiusdunclius2045 that’s what I got out of it

Whatever nerdy negative nancy.

It's really unnecessary and just comes off as a pseudo-intellectual "I'm too smart for sportsball" statement.

When physics flex's you know it, just look at nukes lol

@@SuperAWaC Those who can't think or do anything useful, waste their lives playing & watching sports. :P

​@@Terminator484 i can't tell if you're being serious or not but if you are being serious that's one of the most brainless statements i've seen all week. if you're not being serious then good job

Glory to Galileo!

Of course he would, seeing all that CGI bullshit they're presenting as real.

@@liberty0758 What's your best evidence this is fake?

Speaker is a great idea, how does the Mars atmosphere affect the known sounds it plays.

Better play Slim Whitman's "Indian Love Call". You know, in case of ACK ACK ACK.

If you're going to have a speaker on a rover on Mars, the rover must be named Rick Roller, and the speaker must play "Never Gonna Give You Up".

yeah, it didnt look very intuitive imo.

Damn, I haven’t even got it on Earth.

I wonder how many times they had to flip the plug during assembly

@@fensoxx at least 3 times guaranteed

@@fensoxx More likely, they looked at the plug 3 times before trying to plug it in.

yes and whats your point? we all heard him say it.

This is nice

aaargghhh telephone spam/scam noooooo

As the Manly Scot himself quipped on Twitter, the computer handling microphone input was running Linux, so of course it had audio issues.

I'm glad I didn't write that piece of software

Yet the first working microphone on another planet was during one of the Soviet Venera missions on Venus. You can hear banging and the loud drilling into the Venusian soil onboard.

@Game Over Nope. While Perseverance's main computers run specialized operating systems, the DSU, a specialized computer-on-module which collects and processes all the EDL data (the six cameras and one microphone), runs Linux.

@@trimeta They just runned alsamixer and then everything was fine.

Yeh it looks allot like the empty quater of the arabian dessert.

That's a very Earthophobic point of view. The Titanians go to Mars for summer holiday!

@@5Andysalive Europeans too

Does that make jupiter the hottest cold looking place ?

You might want to double-check that maths.

@@Kyrelel Sure, let's do it together... Perseverance touched down 1 time on Mars. KC Chiefs did not even get 1 touchdown in SuperBowl 55. 1-0 = 100% more. Now you know...

@@Kyrelel LOL, The Chiefs didn't get a TD. Mars rover did. His math is correct.

I loved every one of those TD's in the SuperBowl 31-9 😂 KC 💩 TB12 🐐

@@Gas_Station_Tampons Agreed 🍻

Lol

🤣

Shall..We...Play...A...Game...

🤣🤣🤣

Don't run, we are your friends...

I figured it was binary code but didn't know it was formatted that way

It looked like binary to me, but I was too lazy to pause the video and try

Thanks for being brave enough to admit that. I thought about alphabet positions in binary, but what threw me off was the 7 bits per letter when 5 would suffice. It's only "simple" once it's pointed out to you. Plus there are large chunks that don't represent anything except the orientation of the chute (I think). Still pretty cool, though.

@@johnrex5342 Cool, thanks

Like many things, it's easy when you know how...

@@scrambles1944 my channel has the title of most viewed video.

my channel has the title of most viewed video.

@@8bviews91 how old are you

Or he should have ended with "Thanks for flying safe!".

@@theairaccumulator7144 When i see an account spamming the same comment like that, i just go through and report all of their (identical) comments as spam.

Do you think China will land its rover without problems in a few months?

@@02markcal China will spread the virus on Mars.

@@matthewerwin4677 I hope they follow the USA and sterilize their rover.

@@02markcal me too

@@matthewerwin4677 Assuming China's telling the telling the truth about their numbers, the US is the one you gotta worry about bringing the virus anywhere. We have over 300 times the positive cases they ever did.

You know whoever wrote the code made some form of internal joke about that.

@@Imbeachedwhale in the comments somewhere, for sure

I'm racking my brain here... what movie is that from?!

@@alantownsend5468 Empire Strikes Back, snowspeeders vs. AT-ATs

@@Imbeachedwhale ohhh, I get it now!

This is an excellent opportunity to make a pun confusing thermal degrees with arc degrees, but I can't think of one :/

Right. I think at the presser they said the rover is pointed to the southeast. The skycrane departed to the northwest, as you can see in the annotated MRO image at 1:02.

Killing it's arch-enemy, that area of the unblemished surface of Mars.

They obviously loaded a Spectrum emulator playing Lemmings into the thing.

As it crashes down a little martian bug looks up to the sky and says: "Oh no, not again!"

@@_TheDudeAbides_ Only if Arthur Dent was working on the program!

Or did you see it? All the retards will come out from under their rocks with conspiracy theories about how this is was all faked by Kubric before he died.

@@95rav Try not to let that ruin it for you. Better to occupy your mind with this exceptional human achievement than the tiny, loud minority who decry it. We don't owe them any of our precious attention.

I think that's not correct to be fair. It looks blue because of the dust the rockets blew up. When it settles i think it will be a lot more orange

The color balance in these images is, as Scott said, all over the place. But the air usually seems to be dusty and thin enough that it's some shade of tan most of the time, dominated by dust rather than Rayleigh scattering. The sky color does vary a lot. I think the blue that Scott mentioned in the images looking up at the sky crane is from Mie scattering, which is by dust particles but very small ones, like smoke.

It lives on in Valhalla

You'd probably start losing your mind though after a couple hours, from sensory deprivation

I don't know, being able to appreciate and enjoy the stark beauty of things like that, the emptyness of a desert, the dead of winter, it has an appeal.

If you were standing there, you would be in a spacesuit. If you were in a spacesuit you would not only hear the wind but feel it as well. If, as is likely to happen, the high-velocity particles would tear into your suit, so you could smell and taste it as well. As you would also have a visor, and could see the wind patterns, you would have experienced the wind with all 5 senses. Not what I would call "sensory deprivation" Zoom-classes just aren't cutting it :/

@@Kyrelel What are you talking about bro? You wouldn't hear anything inside the helmet, except your own breathing. There are no sounds of nature, and you would barely feel any wind at all. Mars has only 2 percent of earth's atmosphere. And there are no high velocity particles that you would feel

Place your comma inside the low line like this "_Dan Dare,_" and, voila! _Dan Dare,_

The first thing I thought of was "DARE to resist…" 😐

@@0-m-1-n-0-u-5 Huh. Cheers. Of course, now the comma is italicised, which offends my pedant's soul.

@@Iam2sheds Dan Dare doesn't know it, he doesn't know it, he doesn't know it, but I liked the Mekon.

The first thing I thought of was Dare Iced Coffee.

Same

better than the NASA press conference

Tango Delta. A river area where Gomaz & Morticia like to dance.

Tango Delta means TD In this case, touchdown!!!!

ITS TANGO DELTA

Or heat shield or the orbital component that stayed behind.

My thought (and feel) exactly. Why not have it arc safely away and when it's a safe distance off (maybe a four-second acceleration burn), go into "try to set down any old place" mode. Even if it runs out of fuel too high and belly-flops hard, it won't vaporize and leave a crater like it would at re-entry velocity. And it's more likely to keep the wreckage in one limited area, easier to salvage it in the future (most likely for the alloys and maybe the wiring harness). Plus it's another experiment: did the sky crane manage a close-approach landing? At what point did it fail? How dry can you run those hydrazine tanks when actually performing in Martian gravity/atmosphere? Maybe next time...