ScienceCasts: The Strange Attraction of Gale Crater

[Designandrew]

I wish you guys would put a REALLY nice camera on the back of one of these rovers so as they fly away from earth they could get amazing footage. realtime, high def with a perfect eye similar lens.

[misstreebird]

evidence suggests once rivers coursed and lakes did lie, and now is barren, desolate, irradiated &dry.

man never learns but history repeats

[1984luftballons]

2:04 upper left corner- stack-

[1984luftballons]

how long will it take to get to land'n site?

[Designandrew]

@1984luftballons it takes about 8 months to get to mars

[snowdog03]

Notice the Blue skies, Nasa almost always produces "True Colour" photos which show it as Orange but the truth is that it would look orange during and soon after a Dust Storm but on calm days it's actually a slightly pinkish Blue.

[TheDukeOfHelena]

Yes, Mars does in fact have an atmosphere. It even contains a good amount of Methane which would seem to indicate that there is some organic life, whether it be plant, animal or both on the so called "red" planet. NASA will likely continue to cover up any significant finds anyway so don't get your hopes up.

[Planetgonenuts]

More lies from the NASA disinformation folks. The geological evidence clearly indicates massive electrodynamic forces imparted on the Martian surface via a large nearby passing electrified comet. Comets are NOT dirty snowballs. For science FACT goto:

triplew(dot)jmccanneyscience(d­ot)com

[jhzaphodbeeblebrox]

@Planetgonenuts How does said comet get electrified in the first place, and assuming that it did, its mass is negligible compared to the planets. Why would it have any effect whatsoever?

[ChrisW12208]

WINDS?????? hey wait a minute doesnt there have to be certain conditions for wind to exist like say an atmosphere???

[davidenespana]

@ChrisW12208 Mars does have an atmosphere - pretty thin, but enough for twisters, dust storms and clouds.

[ChrisW12208]

@davidenespana must be a lot more than what they want us to know. It would take some big winds to carve mountains.

[davidenespana]

@ChrisW12208 Wind water and time. Mars has had plenty of all three.

[fatsheep08]

can anyone see the rabbit at 1:31? ;)

[enkigilgamesh]

billions of dollars to go get beach sand. Print up some more money there Bernanke(fed Reserve). I'm for exploration but gobernments don't have our best interests at heart. They haven't gone to the moon yet so why mars. After they bomb earth are they going after Arians(aries, mars)? 

[loveabuttersquash]

THERE'S a bigass statue in the middle of the landscape. It's next to a round section of building and a big tube.

I mean, the level of coverup and disrespect to the Earth people is brazen and stupid.

watch?v=Kfed_ZG3EdM

[wotan237]

NASA is just a lying prop has been org co opted to serve the international bankers...Mars is in much better shape than presented

[Nailer45]

a waste of taxpayers dollars.

We have homeless people and people losing their homes and jobs in droves and our government spends Trillions on stupid crap like this and wars that help nobody.

[stragopulis]

@Nailer45 Our planet is a paradise. Who cares about Mars or Venus or Jupiter, etc. We need to preserve our planet, get rid of the worthless multiplying in large numbers like roaches and we have to support them. People that worked lost everything and who don't, they still have a shelter and food, that's why they are so obese human pigs. They need a wheelbarrow to carry their belly. Please donate a wheelbarrow with food

[doiremick86]

@stragopulis Although I agree with the first part of your comment I have to say it's not the fault of the people of the planet in a sense, it's 50/50 blame wise, the food industry, media and government are half to blame too for making people eat food full of toxins and neurological inhibitors (turning them into obese pigs) then the media using TV as a distraction then the government for offering to take care of them...self-determination is the only immediate remedy.

[stevesmitty79]

Crystal clear Martian skies. So much for red.

[dizwaltney2]

Whats that object with strange markings at 1:23 next to the word TODAY..

Looks like a DEBRIS FIELD ..as theorized by the guy from Thunderbolts dotcom

[dizwaltney2]

Wheres the "Red Sky"  NASA LIARS.....??? 1:30

[dizwaltney2]

Whats that on the Horizon? 1:20

[chrisdabomb70]

Hey guys. Check out 1:19-1:21. It looks like there are buildings or ruins of buildings. Is the software rendering the data that it was given, so we can have a simulated 3d panaromic view of the area? Or is just a NASA artist's software rendered depiction of the area? It really looks like there's the leftover ruins of like 3-4 buildings at least.

[HyperIndividualist]

It will break down.

[MrFBCBSALES]

Finding well preserved fossils on earth is difficult????? Please!!!!!! One need only walk out their door and begin to examine the rocks around them to find a plethora of such "hard to find" specimens. In my backyard this year I found: Calimite impressions in coal, reed grass impressions in shale, and a jellyfish impression in limestone. One wonders if the woman narrating here has ever walked out and just looked around the ground at her feet!!!!!!

[salviadivinorum02]

@bluesojourn "filled in with sediments over time" by what process? mars IS a windy planed, the fact that it has thin atmosphere, doesnt mean it doesn't have winds. In fact there are huge storms carrying sand and dust on mars, thus creating sediments and carving rocks. And it happens on daily basis. You should really get some knowledge before you'll start calling NASA idiots. And I won't comment the last sentence, really. :X

[bluesojourn]

So, the crater "filled in with sediments over time [by what process?] and relentless Martian winds carved a mountain in the center..." Yes, of course! "Relentless Martian winds" on a nearly AIRLESS planet. Obviously, these idiots don't even listen to themselves.

Gale, as well as most of the features on Mars and virtually every rocky body in the solar system, including earth, is a scar from a planet-scaled electrical discharge.

[saucepanbach]

---hey NASA .....can we get high resolution, true colour photos ...... I'd LOVE to 'follow my own curiosity' but strange airbrushing covers most of what it is I'd like to see.

[tongmaa]

There are so many craters with central peaks, hills, or mountains (as you prefer) that it is becoming a bit obvious that they are not caused by impacts. The number of chained craters with central peaks which also have putative impact craters on their rims with the same peaks is beyond coincidence! It is an electric universe and plasma physics is the cosmological science of the 21st Century. Got math skills - Plasma Physics ...

[GaliLeo44444]

@tongmaa

what are you talking about??

[Birgeyful]

why is it secret that Mars's sky is blue?

is Mars teeming with water and blue air, and the rich will go there when they have ruined Earth, or what?

[dischordia23]

@davidenespana "light blue sky' Not really. It is shocking, but Iron oxides are actually real. The bluish rocks in the rover images, and bluish terrain from orbital images are color enhanced to show contrast (many Martian rocks are greenish-grey and this is in the color signal along with that of the rusty orange-oxide dust blanketing them). But color temperature changes a bit throughout the day. Check 'Colors of Mars Donald Davis' We do get a little visible blue at sunsets! watch?v=BNM7Qcbx

[ISamuelII]

@dischordia23 When all is said and done, when the dust settles that sky has a blue look to it.

[AlexCalij]

Amazing. At 1.16 it looks like walls and buildings placed over the hill...

[snmart2]

The  formations at 1:18 really look like walls! I wonder how they came about

[ISamuelII]

@snmart2 That is a typical data chop block not buildings or walls. There was more to that picture but the nasa editor got to it.

I wonder what the thought was when they first practiced to deceive the skys tone. By all adjustments to correct the American Flag in the officially released pictures, the sky turns back to blue.

[davidenespana]

@ISamuelII Interesting that the pan across a panoramic photo at 1:21 shows correctly adjusted colour with a light blue sky rather than the more usual fake 'red planet' myth colours. NASA having a change of heart?

[ISamuelII]

@davidenespana They know we can adjust the colours back to what they should be,,, so maybe a change of heart is coming along.

[dischordia23]

@davidenespana "light blue sky' Not really. It is shocking, but Iron oxides are actually real. The bluish rocks in the rover images, and bluish terrain from orbital images are color enhanced to show contrast (many Martian rocks are greenish-grey and this is in the color signal along with that of the rusty orange-oxide dust blanketing them). But color temperature changes a bit throughout the day. Check 'Colors of Mars Donald Davis' We do get a little visible blue at sunsets! watch?v=BNM7Qcbx

[ISamuelII]

@davidenespana I bet nasa is getting lazy and are using m$ terminals, and the file was missed in the batch process to 'fix' the colours for public release. You should never run critical procedures on m$ products.

[dischordia23]

@ISamuelII "There was more to that picture but the nasa editor got to it." Nope. LRO HiRISE pass image overlayed to topography data.

[ISamuelII]

@dischordia23 Whatever the reason they certainly have a strange idea of what should appear on the screen. Are they that worried the christians jews and muslims would riot if old monuments were exposed?? I wonder how that lawsuit by the Yemenie clerics against nasa is going? Allah did afterall give them the universe as their own... it seyz sohe in their book.

[snmart2]

The formations at 1:18 really look like walls! I wonder how they came about

[doe791]

R2D2's ancestor.

[smooth73074]

Fascinating!!!

[smooth73074]

Fascinating!!!

[Trixiegirl88]

Kewl!