brilliant 👌

I am Smets Lonley Sy Flae

Also w UA landing today haha

Lima Sierra... 😉

"Destorying the land you are tring to land on as you are tring to land on it" - Scott Manley

😂

SCOTTISH culture. Have you heard how people from Glasgow shake hands?

Culture and refinement, I'd say.

I like the manly Scot, Scott Manley, saying "ass cams"

We don't deserve him, truly the best of us.

My wife knows his name and is graduate in the same area as Scott. So the wife is me

AYE!

Yes, now stop bothering me

Husband: "Are you watching that Scottish guy talk about space again?"

@@LemonLadyRecords nailed it!

Same, it was super exciting

Same I'm kinda bummed I didn't watch JPL's stream instead of NASA's.

Same

Technically no one saw it live lol. (Being funny not rude lol)

@@danielmurray8915 Perssy seen it live. As did the backshell cam. 😑😄

That's my head cannon now

I don't care what anyone says, I'm going to accept this as fact.

Much preferred :)

@@shananvarsha fun fact embedded in the saturn 5 code engine start was named "burn baby, burn"

You know to much

Insights

What did he insight though?

Riots amongst the Martian Peen-worms! No more spermatogenesis! No more!

@@ilikeyourname4807 nothing, but it sounded insightful none-the-less!

Unless you want to incite some insights.

@Peter Mortensen I do apologise Peter, how about - Nothing screams "Saturday night for a 25 year old", like watching a Scotsman talking about space does. Is that better?

I can't wait to hear that too. Now if only we had the bandwidth for video. Even 640x480 VHS quality would be something.

Imagine NASA rickrolling us

It's palpable, I feel it as well like everyone else of course.

@@SchardtCinematic 1. VHS is 320x240px; 2. they send frame by frame and assemble the "movie" here on earth - any bandwidth would do; 3. what do you expect to hear in less condensed atmosphere - quiter sounds of wind? ;)

you've incited me with your grammar

While I don't have to peel myself from my monitor anymore when looking at Mars' images, they are pretty magic and it's the simple things that get me going these days, like a HazzCam of near dusk and our own sun, brings it all home.

Having lived in Death Valley, I have to say: it looks like home... the rocks even look familiar to where I used to hike

Southern Utah. Check :-)

Just watch Monday's press conference for a relatively-detailed analysis of the images and videos from the many cameras.

@@danlock1 yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh...wasted time! no thx.

Yeah, you're not going to be able to play any csgo with 11 minutes of ping

11 minutes is on the quick side. Just wait until Mars is on the other side of the sun from Earth.. then it’s ~25 minutes.

11 minutes ping

@@CarFreeSegnitz fun and games

@@spacenoodles5570 1v1 me bro xD

Does the sky crane not count?

@@josephmoore4764 the helicpter will generate thrust areodynamicaly, not via rockets.

@@TheToric with such a thin atmosphere it will be interesting to see how well it works

I remember seeing an "artistic reenactment" animation (possibly a camera on a jig over a model terrain) of one of the Mars landers back in the 80s... at the time I thought it was real footage, and was amazed they got a little rocket powered flyer onto Mars. Later, when I grew up and searched for the footage, never found it, searching the old missions, saw it never happened, and was obviously just documentary images etc. So now they finally are doing real life flight on Mars, with video/photos is amazing!

It's pointless though. Why would NASA waste the energy requirements on this? Just fly a balloon. It's way better in every way and won't crash. Unless theres a reason that we need to get somewhere quick on Mars??? If there is, i can't think of it.

It's not acting. It's being, for a while, giddy children. We got to see this incomprehensible engieering stunt successful. Now it will fly a helicopter on another planet and look for signs of life. What's there NOT to be giddy about?

...and quite right too.

@@Billfish57 Someone did not get a good start to their day huh? Haha

@@Billfish57 excuse me?

@@Billfish57 Oh my bloody god - Ive read some junk over the last few days, but that's really.up.near the top. I think it's best that you stop watching these events completely, & divert your ideas elsewhere.

No batteries needed.

@@erikpreston1805 Like Curiosity, the rover includes a robotic arm, although Perseverance's arm is longer and stronger, measuring 2.1 m (6 ft 11 in). ... The MMRTG charges two lithium-ion rechargeable batteries which power the rover's activities, and must be recharged periodically -wiki-

they did it with curiosity

@@macster6984 Yep, the same orbiter (MRO) did that, and that was equally mind-boggling. Just think, a spacecraft orbiting at 3 km/sec, around a planet over 200 million km distant, takes a picture of a landing spacecraft over 700 km away. Insane!

Mind blowing stuff. I'm still not sure if I'm even comprehending it correctly it's that technically challenging

I am looking forward to the day when we have a rover on the surface, with a video camera looking upwards, and seeing another spacecraft air-breaking down towards the surface.

@@macster6984 and with Phoenix

They did it for Curiosity too. Still cool, but it's becoming routine now.

I think there may be a few more amazing pics from that landing we've yet to see obviously, but that sky crane pic is pretty damn awesome

Until the video is published, yes

You know this world. Photo of the year will be Kim Kardashian doing stupid stuff.

By now for sure This morning when I saw it instantaneously set it as my wallpaper

I’d already collapsed due to a heart attack at that point

If you haven't already, watch it again with Curiosity. It's impossible to reproduce the suspense of the uncertainty, but it's still thrilling to watch.

I cried just from the sheer emotional release. Seeing everyone at JPL jumping up and down, and knowing all the hard work they had done to get that rover on Mars.

imagine ACTUALLY being part of that team. working on it for 5+ years. like holy shit

@@pvic6959 I would have to take valium or something to cope.

Flying skycranes since 1.0.3 :D

It will be great to see the full sequence from both directions

@@peteb901 Indeed. It was, too.

You can count anything on one hand - if you have enough fingers

You can count to 1023, if you use binary.

"What happened to his hands?" "What's that?" "His hands. Why are they missing?" "...Caaaaarrrlll"

@@Eletronicafg You can get to 1,048,575 if you use four finger positions - fully curled (0), finger bent at first joint (1), finger straight forward (2), finger straight up (3). This was the best encoding I could get and still have all fingers be able to encode independent of the others. A person with double joints could probably count much higher.

@@Eletronicafg did you count in the 11th finger 🤔🧐 do the math again

Nice

Did you manage to decode any of that data?

@@Valery0p5 We measured its rotation speeds and recorded its Dopler shift. Its not our position to decode another nations data with out them asking us to. We will be taking over Mars Express's tracking though and other ESA missions in the coming months.

That has to be amazing to be able to observe and participate in these frontier pushing missions.

Goonhilly Downs ?

probably more like many tens or hundreds of thousands. :-)

I've been waiting for it even before the landing!

Same :)

9 months later the next generation roll wheels for the first time.

MARS: where the least interesting place you could possibly find yourself is on a spaceship.

An extremely funny mental image that, I love the follow up, "actually that would be quite catastrophic I don't know how that would happen"

Seems like a hell of an interesting landing to me

...And that's how new rovers are made.

I kan haz cheeseburgercam?

That's what she said!

@@vincentguttmann2231 :DD

Asscams: catch people on tape when they try to bite your shiny metal ass.

Scott's a Pom, in the UK and here in Oz, it's Arse-cam. An Ass-cam is on a donkey.

You just need some Perseverance....

@@mrb.5610 get out

Yay!

I saw that. So much leaning in then leaning back.

Should have just hugged. Ridiculous.

Sucks being pawns for the globalist agenda

@@dmurray2978 Wow. The determined ignorance is stunning.

Yeah, rough times we live in right now.

Arse-cam for the English spelling.

Nah, highest priority is filtering out all the Martians. That's why it takes so long for the "raw" images to be available.

@@iamjadedhobo I thought the martians put displays around the rover so it just sees what looks like barren terrain

Real R/C pilot *confirmed*

Soon, real soon)

24104 LEGO Curiosity released 7 years ago.

@@nelsoncaraballo9446 $1500 I believe

I've still got the Lego Technic Mars Exploration Rover (7471) AKA Spirit/Opportunity. It's probably worth something now.

@@Forest_Fifer a couple of te elements are VERY $. I got it together thru BRICKLINK. Found the parts in France.

There is a robotics rover set (not Percy or anything inspired irl), I got it with the Saturn V rocket kit.

I thought it was less crazy than the airbag method used for Spirit and Opportunity.

I was a kid at the this astrophysics conference, Curiosity was still on earth, and they were explaining the sky crane manuver, you can not understand how mind blown I was that day.

Hopefully with future r&d the sky crane can be reusable instead just yeeted to the wilderness.

@@zainiikhwan9405 Seems pretty daunting to me, in a hypothetical case for that to be re-usable you'd need a lot of infrastructure on or around Mars: 1. you'd want something roughly payload sized like it fits aerodynamically behind the rovers now (would limit/restrict future designs) 2. sky crane has to get back to orbit and attach itself to a new project 3. fuel for it has to be created there or brought along on the mission, refueling is yet another thing that can go wrong 4. a new heatshield needs to be brought in too, I wouldn't expect it to be viable after use and even if there's a chance good luck inspecting it and retrieving it to mars orbit 5. the quick fuel efficient route to Mars is only available for a limited time every few years (needs quick turnaround time), although I guess projects can be parked in Mars orbit for a while? It would take a lot to make that practically and financially viable, with our current frequency of Mars missions and how often there's an interval for quick trips to the place I don't think it's ideal. Doesn't seem viable to me unless there's some (semi-)automated or human inhabited funtional ground base on Mars somehow and ideally something in orbit as well, which their own even larger challenges.

It _is_ crazy, in a Rube Goldberg direction. I think airbags are crazy, but simple. In the 60's, if you had seen "Airbags in Your Steering Wheel!" on a Popular Science cover, you'd say "Oh great, another rotating piston engine, another Scissor-wing jet...". But "Dropping Planet Probes from Rocket-Packs!!"... no, the editors would squelch that. "That ain't gonna fly, c'mon..."

They're just idiots - don't let 'em spoil your fun!👍

CG?

@@daszieher 'CG?' ??

@@daszieher Computer graphics or computer generated

oxygen thief is my new favorite insult for morons

Endeavor to persevere!

@@kenlogsdon7095 We thought about that for a long time, "Endeavour to persevere," and, after we had thought about it for long enough, we declared war on the Union.

Does iphone have disposable cameras?

@@otofoto Yes, you throw all of them away after a year when you buy the newer model with one more camera.

We must first invite Martians to join EU and accept GDPR

yeah, NASA wouldn’t want those out. It might cause if flood of funding for more missions to Mars.

Exactly. They don't want us regular earthlings spotting the Martians first.

Nevermind them employing an Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator...

They haven't signed releases for their images

Yep!

Half of Texas wishes they had radioisotope thermal generators in their air conditioners..

@@quadg5296 I'll bet they wish they had RTG powered heat pumps!

Amazingly, Perseverance’s RTG only generates 110 watts of power! Not enough to run a very good heater, unfortunately.

Strictly speaking, the RTG is a constantly reliable heater, with electric benefits. It's constant 24/7 thermal & electric energy output makes a far superior power plant for Mars vs solar panels used before. That makes this generation of rovers immune to what killed the previous designs - long cold nights, dust storms, winter cold and frosts. The heat output alone is a huge functional life extension bonus, even if thermal junction generation has low efficiency, because heaters were a large part of previous rovers power budget and their final death blow. To Casey -for your problem, maybe an RTG's heat output could run an RV style heat absorption refrigerator, best case? Definitely not your home! 🙂

You would probably need permission from the department of energy or something like that.

Monday they're going to drop video

JPL accidentally drops all 2000 pounds of a Curiosity-class rover on Oppurtunity. While the Curiosity-class is still booting up, Oppurtunity crawls out from under one of the wheels, and drives away to continue the mission.

Uhm... Oppurtunity? The dead* rover?

@@gage2189 Or, after the above incident it could be the, "roll over, rover"!

Then proceeds to repair the rover it landed on and they become best mars rover buddies! ^-^

Reminds me of one of the Venera missions, which determined that the surface of Venus was made from camera lens caps after one of the lander's lens caps rolled underneath the surface sampling device. "Hmmm... this part of Mars appears to be made from the same stuff as the Beagle 2 lander... Intelligent life confirmed!... Oh, wait. That's just us."

But the InSight lander is already on Mars, so there is not a lack of insights.

And it's awesome :D They put it online in 4k quality!

@@Ink_25 In 4K? Really? That's absolutely amazing. Where?