HiRISE Mars 3-D - New Amazing Flyovers

[charlespontoon]

A taste of things to come, how surreal to stand on mars looking back at the earth

[ScOOb4St33vE]

So beautiful! Amazing visualization! I literally wept from the sheer beauty and amazement. I was on Mars!

[rimbbaud]

Music composer...?

[USMC4life1991]

ide give any thing to go to mars... they wouldnt have to pay me or bring me home. Ide die there just to go

[andrewyaoauatauabaea]

Why is the sun so big at 2:54

[rEdRoLiCa]

Just........... wow! (music too)

[pudster420]

@CLRubyHypatia ...i suggest you do some research!...theres massive cities...oceans, lakes, rivers, trees, grass.......people! animals/creatures...yup, believe it or not

[EMPYREAN808]

It is human nature and audacity to believe we are the center of the universe. We are simply the beginning of a remnant of a memory in the universe, and soon our time will come. The lights will soon go out on the human species and our useless exsistence will be through. Only the Universe will remember how we cried out in fear of our own witnessed extinction.

[ironmadion55]

2:28 i just wanna lay down and sunbathe in on the rocks... though i'd probably die in about 4-5 seconds...

[panospcm]

It sucks that nobody ihabits Mars.

[PUSHA304]

@panospcm I was thinking the same thing

[tcbrickhouse]

WONDERFUL IMAGERY ! TB

[6SpAr6TAN69]

it's just a stupid planet. it has no water.

[Ancientwinds]

@6SpAr6TAN69 It's more than just a stupid planet that most likely does have water on it in one form or another (though certainly not on the surface). Mars, like every other object in the Universe, is a link to our past. It is the culmination of truly awesome forces mindlessly bringing about something so beautiful, and I might dare say, glorious that words and even human imagination can scarcely begin to frame it in our limited concept of the cosmos.

[6SpAr6TAN69]

@Ancientwinds i doubt that water exist in the form we know it. if hydrogen exist, or perhaps oxygen then this does not mean it' s water. it' s so cold on Mars that it should have ice everywhere. so it' s just a lie by scientists to lure us giving them money for exploring this useless planet.

[playsblueswolf]

It's amazing how so many people find negative outcomes in a magnificient scientific achievement. Most of you need to update your scientific knowledge.

[Grey9man]

Could it be that the reason we see the sky as pink sometimes, might be due to duststorms?

[Grey9man]

Interesting, first we are seeing blue sky, then salmon / pink colored sky. A blue sky usually denotes water on the surface, hmmmm.

[systemaddictshock]

@Grey9man its all computer graphics based on topographical and imaging, none of the flybys were actual real video. they had this stuff for years already. Anyone remember that Mission to Mars ride at Disneyland?

[Grey9man]

@systemaddictshock Thanks for letting me know what the imaging is about, I had thought that it was video that was enhanced by the computer, but not totally computer graphics.

[systemaddictshock]

@Grey9man you can get the same results with Google Earth. they have Mars and the Moon on there...minus any kind of atmosphere rendering

[screamjackson]

the martian sky is realy blue, but nasa changed the color configuration to hide the amout of oxigen in the air. in the summer there at the equater* the temp. is about 0 degrees or higher. nasa hides so many things

[Deuterstomia]

You sir are a complete imbecile.

[rage13371]

@Deuterstomia rofl

[Bdiddly1]

i really have now heard it all.

[screamjackson]

@Bdiddly1 oh no theres much more to heard buddy, nasas lies havnt ended lmao

[Bdiddly1]

@screamjackson ,sorry ime still gettingover the nasa changing the colour of the sky on mars thing,that is the best 1 ive heard yet,fucking mental,i love that kind of crazy shit.screamjackson your class man,pure class!

[screamjackson]

@Bdiddly1 I know the way they configured the colors when they landed on mars and they did it according to this plate on top of the rover, iv seen a video of the rovers before they were launched and iv saw the color of the plate and then i have seen them after the 6 month period on mars and the colors weren't even close.. and its wasn't because of the dust nether...

[Bdiddly1]

@screamjackson what?ure having a laugh!lol

[xXJoshuaDXx]

Hope some day when science comes to a verdict to live on mars. Story for our future kids and grand kids. when they ask about earth. Also if we do live here. lets not fuck it up like we did earth ok? :)

[MrIrish191]

@xXJoshuaDXx First off, What the hell is there to fuck up? Its a barren rock! And we haven't fucked earth up. There is no part of earth that humans have made uninhabitable.

[TheMercilessEye]

@MrIrish191

Then I'm sure you'll have no problem at all with moving to Picher, Oklahoma...

[screamjackson]

@MrIrish191 actually theres is dude, ever hear of the islands that America tested nukes on? you cant live there lmao

[2012Aquarius]

The next war will be for the rights to mine Helium 3,on the moon.(new clean source of energy, Helium 3 is found on earth also, but in very miniscule amounts.)

Lets concentrate on Mars info for a distraction.

[2012Aquarius]

Nice animation, not real imagery shown in fast traveling flyover part of this video.

Why does the sky keep differing in colour?

Keep it real.

[krrrruptidsoless]

Why go to another planet? What if there was life there before us. And what if there is life there and on other planets after life on earth dies. What if by landing on other planets it changes life there to hostile against earth. And who says that when earth is dormant or without life again that they won't land here to prevent us from having life on earth again. The planets are seperated for a reason. Humans have went against nature their whole time here. Its time we don't mess others up.

[MithrilDwarf81]

Oh yeah that sounds like a great idea, spend millions of dollars on high tech equipment that might fail in a few weeks, over miitary equipment that saves millions of innocent lives. Great idea.... :P

[tastybbq1]

i would take the moon or mars over war any time..and thats what we are supose

to do...so lets stop killing people and

spend R money on high teck stuff

on earth and in space before we are

out of time

[glove888]

Where is CYDONIA??? Hummmmmmm convenient. ;) Hope Rover thaws out!!! Come back to us little buddy...

[1PATRI0T]

I don't know how anyone thinks we could ever live there.... Look at all those craters. Even if we could sustain life, it looks like the atmosphere is so thin that every rock that enters the atmosphere makes it to the surface. Death from falling debris...

[SuperKixxx]

they would probably take advantage of natural formations, like they were going to do on the moon, an open shelter would be like a ticking timebomb waiting to be destroyed, just like the space station is now, all it takes is a rock the size of a grapefruit that nobody sees and that thing will be a disaster, but odds are that wont happen

[Digeridude]

Why is the sky blue and the sun so big?

[usagicullen]

@Digeridude

ya thats what I was wondering

[Digeridude]

Uh, no. The sky on Mars is pale yellow.

[erichouse2000]

Nice CG movie

[MrWSChurchill]

Does anyone know the music scores which were used in the video? The description gives no clues. It's quite beautiful and I would like to acquire it.

[krrrruptidsoless]

Yes music one you zero. Your in overtime.

[imarchello]

the sky isn't blue there...lol

[Mythification]

This video is much win!

[MITHWORLD1]

I never thought I could see Mars this close!! thanks a lot for the video,amazing.

[6SpAr6TAN69]

Cool flyover. At some points the camera would go so low if it was real plane and there were people on the surface they would have to duck to avoid the scrape, he, he.

[jugobugo]

What is that Frost? It is not water, is it?

[simplicitylost2]

No, water cannot exist on the surface of Mars today, or at least not for more that seconds literally with the low atmospheric pressure, temertures too, even if the pressure was high enough in the deepest canyons or craters it would soon freeze. :) I believe you need about 9 millibars pressure for water,, Mars is average at about 7.. Earth is 1000 or 1 bar :) Though Pressures can hit 10 mb on Mars, like I allude above it will either soon freeze or literally boil through lack of pressure :)

[simplicitylost2]

"temperatures" below lol. However, it would also depend on the type of water, I mean if it was sat heavily laden with salts it could conceivably last longer, but would still vanish soon enough, just seep away.

[simplicitylost2]

p.s. Clearly a massive amount of water existed in liquid form at some point, much is still there as perma frost & locked at the poles. I think terraforming may come to fruition in the disant future, just the lack of Magnetic field on Mars is always a Major issue with any notion of making a second Earth :)

[6SpAr6TAN69]

why would a magnetic field inhibit any chances of inhabiting the planet?

[simplicitylost2]

Well, there is a magnetic signature locked in the oldest rocks on Mars, mostly in the southern hemisphere. The signature shows that early in Mars history it has a MF 10x the strength of Earths current field. This was the time when Mars had active volcanism, possibly oceans, a far thicker more earth like atmoshere, between 3.7 & 4.2 Billion years ago, apparnatly.

[simplicitylost2]

So, the Magenetic field acts as a shield against Highly charged particles streaming off the Sun, energetic particles from the like of coronal mass ejections which regularly are ejected toward Earth. These charged particles are deflected by Earth's strong magnetic field, otherwise we would simply be dead in hours, the atmoshpere would also begin to be effected, water molecules would be split into H2 & O2, the hydrogen being light would soon be lost.

[6SpAr6TAN69]

I doubt if this would be a reason not to inhabit the planet. The ISS is bombarded with radiation from the sun and yet people live there.

[simplicitylost2]

No, actually it is not. It is within the protective zone within our Magnetic filed :) As are all Satellites. The only time we left that zone was on the Apollo missions. Truth is, they were lucky there was no solar flare activity, they didn't even know the effects at the time. Apollo missions were only a week, a mission to Mars, maybe 2 years & look into it, it's one of the biggest issues with a trip to Mars, the likelihood of coronal mass ejections killing the crews.. No magnetic deflection.

[bad4ever2001]

@simplicitylost2

Mind me asking, is it known how the magnetic field protecting earth is generated?

[simplicitylost2]

No problem.. It's due to Earth's rapidly spinning liquid core.Electric currents in the liquid iron outer core that is, the inner core is solid..  This is why Mars supposedly lost it's magnetic field. Mars being smaller cooled quicker than Earth & the process that was producing shut down on Mars as the core has cooled & likely become more solidified :)

[bad4ever2001]

@simplicitylost2

Ahh, thanks for that. I just thought that maybe at some point we can invent a spaceship capable of re-creating this event to allow the ship to generate its own magnetic field allowing better safer space travel. It just seemed logical. I wonder; do you think this would be very difficult to create? That is, a magnetic field generator capable of blocking dangerous solar winds.

[simplicitylost2]

I have thought could there be ways to produce an artificial magnetic field as in for Mars itself lol. I mean maybe in the distant future we could built something in orbit around Mars to act as a shield in some way.. At the moment the best Idea on a spacecraft seems to literally be something like tubes filled with water, coils surrounding a safety area; water is a good radiation blocker...

[simplicitylost2]

Like a safe area where a crew would sit it out & wait for the danger to pass, from one of these blasts of charged particles from the Sun.

Our Atmoshpere gives us about the equivalent of 20 metres of water above our heads in protective terms. Lead is a great shield, but you'd literally need walls of lead feet thick to shield one completely ; totally impractical.

[krrrruptidsoless]

Start with getting those basards that made the magnetic Propulsion Engine to mass produce it instead of holding out until all the fossil fuels are used up and they can sell them at a hold you for hostage for energy rate. Meaning that when we resort back to campfires for warmth. That there will be a truck coming through the darkness lit up like vegas of old. Delivering to the public MPE's for the price of souls and gold combined. Corporate withholding for overprofitization and the God persona

[Bdiddly1]

eh,what the fuck planet are you on?

[6SpAr6TAN69]

whoa, I had no idea that magnetic field is actually used for anything, or that it can actually deflect solar flare and stuff. They don teach these stuff at school, though they should. Well, I guess the only thing roaming the Martial surface then would be... WALL-E ha!!

[trecool9992]

6SpAr6TAN69:

I don't know where you live, but we were taught it at school :/

[Gorteenminogue]

Awesome.

[gilgamesh1962]

I know most will not agree, but, if we humans are not capable of taking care of our own planet, maybe we shouldn't be "terraforming" maybe we will eventually evolve into a species that is capable of living in balance with nature, but seems we have a long time ago. reminds me of the char in the movie matrix, agent Smith, categorized our species as a virus. in many ways he is correct.

[gilgamesh1962]

Anyway I loved the video, and hope that someday we can have something like "Google Mars" where we can all explore mars from our homes, and zoom down to the surface and see everything in great detail.

[NEEDCARS]

you alredy can, on google earth. you can see the moon mars, venus, deep space etc

[gilgamesh1962]

I know that Google has mars on their google earth, I am looking forward to the resolution that Google Earth has though, where you can see things a few feet across.

I guess this will eventually happen, just a matter of time. seems google is going that route. I am still amazed by Google Earth such a wealth of information, that only a few decades ago would have been considered science fiction.

[Natataek]

but what if we don't have time to evolve into something better before we wipe ourselves out? Or what if we're hit by a meteor or suffer some other cosmic catastrophe? Mars offers a potential (though very rough) haven within our neighborhood in the solar system. The quicker we can establish some kind of base settlement there and develop terraforming capabilities, the better. It's a potential insurance policy for our race!

[Natataek]

and once we've done that, we will have developed the technology to move to other locations within the solar system, like perhaps the moons of Jupiter and Saturn.

(responding to gilgamesh)

[beachcomber2008]

My word, that was beautiful.

[554466551]

BRAVO HIRISE and Doug Ellison. This was awe inspiring!

[yipfur]

bugger a moon colony I would rather see a mission to Europa and see if there is a liquid ocean and any life under the ice.

[purplefuzzythings]

What's this music?

This is quite intense.

[nobleheight]

Okay, now show images of earth using the same equipment.

[ZombieX13]

Why bother when you can do the real thing here in helicopters or planes? I can't wait to see tht happen on Mars and the moon.

[nobleheight]

You need to compare real video against video from this NASA equipment in order to get a feel for how accurate the NASA equipment renders images. You can't get real video from mars, but you can from earth. This video is not real video. There is no plane flying across the mars airspace. This video is computer generated from data gathered.

[ZombieX13]

That's what I was saying. I can't wait until we get real footage of a real fly over of Mars terrain.

[AncientAtheist]

Terraform!

[KasparHauser4]

Ok so Mars is just nothing but boring barren desolate rock formations. Let us scrap all Mars projects and use that money instead to establish a moon colony and really do something of a practical nature in outer space.

[xIntoThePitx]

@KasparHauser4 - Obama said fuck the moon.. so we're not returning to the moon

[KasparHauser4]

xintoThePitx

I know and I very much disagree with that decision

[xIntoThePitx]

@KasparHauser4 - Apparently the few billions for research isn't money well spent.. but the trillions spent killing people in Iraq is.. awesome!!

[KasparHauser4]

xintoThePitx

Why do you make a false dichotomy between the Iraq war and mars? Where on the comments page did I ever say I prefer that the money be spent on the Iraq war?

I know your sacred little (star gazer) cow is being gored here. But if you are going to form an argument against me at least TRY to be honest ok? I said I wanted the money that would be spent on Mars research to be diverted into establishing a moon colony. I realize it is difficult for a star gazer to be rational, but try

[purplefuzzythings]

I do not affiliate myself in any way with intothepit, but I ask you please to not be so hostile, and kindly do not falsely categorize star gazers as rarely being rational. I'm not looking for an argument, I'm just saying that there's more emotional value in the appreciation of this natural beauty than in your own spite.

[KasparHauser4]

Purplefuzzythings

Too much money is spent on star gazing "gee whiz" projects. If YOU want to see those projects fly then why don't you and your friends fund them with your own money? A moon colony is a fruitful and useful endeavor. Gee whiz projects are not.

[purplefuzzythings]

And yet it not only provides valuable research and information on the geography and geology of mars, but carries significant emotional attachment and increases the happiness of society.

[xIntoThePitx]

@Kaspar - Calm the fuck down, I wasn't arguing, I was making conversation. I was stating a fact about how things get prioritized in the American Government, don't you think it's sad so much of it goes to war and so little toward research? So sorry to step on your precious ego, but you sir are the one who's being irrational. And it's now clear your agenda here is nothing but to argue and complain. Have fun with that.

[MetastasisVideos]

@xIntoThePitx Yeah man, you didn't know? self-destruction is always preferrable to advancement.

[theshadowify]

@KasparHauser4 the moon is even more boring desolate rock formations.

[KasparHauser4]

theshadowify Part 1

Yes you are correct. there are some major reasons for a moon colony however.

1. The moon is close by. Not only in traveling time and distance but also in electronic communication lag time.

2. If the promise of Helium3 is realized,then mining it on the moon would pay for the moon colony.

3. The moon lacks an atmosphere and the gravity is about one fifth that of earth.

There is thinking that you might not even need a rocket to get off the surface of the moon

[KasparHauser4]

theshadowify Part2

3. (cont) the speculation is that with low gravity and no atmosphere that you could use magnetic propulsion to launch vehicles off a ramp.

4. The moon has an abundance of solar energy sources. Some areas are in sunlight permanently

5. with no atmosphere to worry about nuclear power reactors could be safely operated. perhaps in a crater?

6. from a vibrant moon colony you could launch many many voyages throughout the solar system cheaply

[theshadowify]

If the promise of Helium3 How would this pay for a moon colony? I mean, you would have to still get supplies there which would be very expensive. How could you transport this back to Earth safely. How could you launch many many voyages throughout the solor system cheaply? All space craft are built on the Earth.

[KasparHauser4]

theshadowify

It would take too long to explain it all in comments. Google helium3 and do some on line research. In a nutshell if the promise of the potential of Helium3 is realized we could have super safe nuclear reactors.

The interest in Helium3 is one factor that is fueling India's and China's interest in moon exploration.

[bshieldsbb01]

2:45

Who else pictures a herd of Thoats thundering over the sands of Barsoom?

[macnutz]

Beautiful, thanks for posting.

[village1diot]

I saw a face!

[claudiaquat]

...these are the days of lasers in the jungle...

[A11ex]

Is there a HD version?

[gir908922]

This is just awesome! ^__^