Next Mars Rover in Action-Animation

[tailandfox]

If NASA was allowed to use nuclear power the rover would of been on Mars by now

[DonsMooreSales]

Wall-E

[LeeAVP]

I would like to re-record this voice over to include the words, "the rover can use it's tactical defensive laser in the face of a detected underground threat, mitigating the possibility of hostile takeover of its nuclear systems by subterranean-dwelling enemies."

[Dreamsteep]

Here's to humanity for continuing to pursue the unknown! Let's spend more on these endeavors and stop blowing each other up. It's time to grow up and look beyond ourselves.

[keshaz12]

@Soporipherum

And what makes it even worse is that if this mission fails, NASA will shut down because of the economical problem...

Yeah....

Shuting down NASA for doing something actualy useful instead of stopping a war wich costs about 100 times more a month.

[laserfloyd]

@Soporipherum Think of the things we could have accomplished... =/

[nirvana2544]

I can see any solar panel on the rover. How can he have enough power for more than a year ?

[33Skygazer]

@nirvana2544 It's nuclear-powered for the planned 2-year duration of the main mission objectives.

[AnalogX64]

The process looks very complicated, I hope they can pull it off.

We cant stay on this planet forever and need to leave at some point, these types of missions is the start.

[laserfloyd]

@AnalogX64 Phoenix performed a similar landing BUT it the whole stage landed. This is a first with have a decent stage and rover attached to it. There are going to be some very nervous controllers on landing day. Get the Valium ready!

[peaps]

@AnalogX64 Are you having a laugh? We will never get off this planet. This mission wont work because it's overcomplicated.

[bakasheru]

@Soporipherum  make robots, not war.

[Abdikarimelmi]

@bakasheru Un patriotic american, there would no space projects without war. WAR= TECH

[bakasheru]

@Abdikarimelmi I'm so unpatriotic, that I'm not even American.

[DKeskiN]

WALL-E

[DrIasimov]

Mars: It's one damn surprise after another.

[TeachingU]

mach 2 or 1000 mph? mach2 is like 2472mph!

[alchen96]

@TeachingU The speed of sound is different on Mars due to density, atmosphere composition, and temperature.

[TeachingU]

@alchen96 Makes sense then. Thanks! Maybe we should stop using "terms" and start using numbers instead.

[thesparitan]

@Soporipherum I find your comment offensive and unamerican. Because it sounds like you are trying to say that 5 days of killing brown people is worth less than massive scientific discoveries that will last millennium and even help the human race become space faring peoples. I for one believe that killing people with cool weapons is worth far more than truth knowledge and the progression of the human race to highs unimaginable until now.

[patrickclatot]

man on mars , maybe in 2035 ?

[patrickclatot]

oui cela est extraordinaire , quand l' homme sur mars , peut etre vers 2035 .

[Kg277]

Way too complex.. gonna fail!

[nexuseragon]

Why does even NASA put sound in Space!?

[thisnameisuniq]

@nexuseragon the sound in the video is inaccurate, however, you would still hear the sound of engines and vibrations if you were on the ship.

[KathrynHazuka]

@nexuseragon they hax?

[pjazzopardi]

@nexuseragon to interest the public...

[seeriktus]

Isnt that rocket+lowering to the ground bit at the end an extravagance? Why not just plonk it down with parachute+balloon like previous missions?

[UndeadPizzaGuy]

@seeriktus Curiosity is too large and too heavy for that method to suffice. Also, it's actually much more reliable and accurate. Curiosity's landing system is actually surprisingly similar to the last two rovers, considering it will also use rockets to slow itself down for the final stage, and will also descend down a cable for landing. The only real difference is this method is much more precise, and doesn't require dropping the rover from 15 meters for several painful 40g bounces.

[Affenzahn376]

This is so amazing, i hope everything will work fine :)

[SwitchBladeII]

Watch out for the transformers when there. They tend to pick up the rovers.

[2eelShmeal]

Maybe in a few thousand years or less these rovers will be sitting in a science museum on Mars itself that people can go visit and marvel at all the primitive technology from the early 21st century explorers.

No matter what time or era you live in, there will come a time when your epoch will be ancient history. Looking at it that way, we live in the distant past according to some future generation. Weird.

[grgfraiser]

i wish we had some hi def video watch this thing land

[koalabear2]

@Daniel17535 F.U.C.K YOU 

[kauaicr07]

Aloha NASA JPL trailblazer in space technologies YouYube site is awesome bravo thank you sincerely. kauaicr07

[Xpycts]

Cool, but very hard landing, must be more simple =)

[phantom1000A]

@Soporipherum fuck you.

[MileenasFloss]

Wow that cool. I can't imagine the planning and math it takes to pull something like this off.

I get slightly depressed when I see stuff like this. We've managed to build this little thing, send it to a planet 137 million miles away AND land, but for some reason, can't figure out how to not kill each other off here. wish we'd get it together on the blue planet before poking around on the red one.

[arna11420]

can it check for microfossils?

[2eelShmeal]

@arna11420 Sadly no. I watched the hour long mission briefing.

[Skaarjguy]

@Soporipherum Oh God I'm an idiot, I see what you're saying now. Sorry! I'm just tired of all the ignorance on these videos and I went after you.

[freequest]

impressive piece of machinery it boggles the mind the amount of calculations and work needed to do this one thing 

[JonBastian]

JPL: I know it's become a convention, but could you please, please not add sound effects in space on these videos? And pay a little more attention to the sound in general? There's a great educational opportunity here. For example, given that the atmosphere of Mars is less dense than Earth's and has a different composition, what would things really sound like there? The rest of the production values are so good. Please don't skimp on the audio...

[unmannedspaceflight]

@JonBastian There's no sound in space....but there's an attention span in humans. Were there no SFX, we would have much criticism and many comments asking why. As for sounds in a Martian atmosphere - until we have a working microphone on the surface - who knows. Various simulations suggest it would be similar to Earth - but quieter. Again - if we did that, the comments and criticism would be 'I can't hear it'. Why not try an audio-mashup of your own - there's an HD download at JPL.

[HermannRattenhuber]

Looks extremly complicated to land the rover safely. Hopefully everything works well finally.

[snackbar123]

I got my name put on to that chip thing along with 1.5 million others appx. they put a call out for last year.

I like to think I'll be chosen for recolonization by the laser robot aliens before the earth explodes.

[pagani8]

I sure hope it works but the landing sure isn't fail-safe!

[d4rksektor]

That's the coolest method of rover deployment ever!

[danielsoto888]

El atterrizaje en Marte de "Curiosity", narrado. Véanlo, muy bueno.

[Violaman0910]

That is flipping awesome!!! Keep up the great work, NASA!

[ReasonNLogic]

Thumbs up for science!!

[hapt1K]

a lot of points of failure during landing.. hope it works without a hitch.

[illustriouschin]

Would we be able to use this device to discover if life ever existed on Earth?

[jeevaisnet]

@illustriouschin life does exist on earth :P mars*

[illustriouschin]

@jeevaisnet Was someone able to use this machine to shoot a laser at some rock powder to check this?

[StephenHeart]

Fascinating.

[metapagn]

I hope it will all work good!

Can't wait for the real landing :D

[tiapon]

im ao excited about this mission.

GOOD LUCK JPL and |NASA|!!!

[holyhell5050]

I always think an opportunity is missed to inform people of the different speeds of sound and a bit of appreciation for the Mach scale of speed measurements. Like "At about Mach 2, which at the equivalent speed of 1000MPH and altitude of X on Earth would be Mach 1.5."

Maybe I'm just being needlessly pedantic...

[ReasonNLogic]

@holyhell5050 Is it because of atmospheric density?

[holyhell5050]

@ReasonNLogic Speed of sound is a function of the temperature and composition of the atmosphere. For instance, the speed of sound at 0° C of CO2 = 259 m/sec, O2 = 316 m/sec, and hydrogen = 1,290 m/sec. I understand (but am not certain, I'd encourage you to research it yourself) that the speed of sound on Mars is less than on Earth primarily due to a higher fraction of CO2 in the atmosphere.

[CammarroSS]

awesome =)

[Rg2732]

Seeing the descent stage I couldn't help but think of a line in the opening scene of Pandora's Star, which I read recently- also spoken on Mars.

"Hey dudes, how's it hanging?"

Bad pun, I know!

[DaBamBamMan]

Awesome.

[sonichockeyaug]

2:45 IMMA FIRIN MAH LAZOR!!!

[csisatyr]

This has long been a NASA problem. We developed a great delivery system for Spirit and Opportunity but choose to spend money developing something new and complicated for Curiosity. If they successfully get this thing on the ground it will be a wonder.

Too bad NASA engineers don't get bonuses for recycling and coming in under budget. There are so many thing to explore and so few resources available for exploration.

[Censming]

@csisatyr Curiosity was too large to use the same landing system as Spirit and Opportunity, so they had to develop the new landing system.

[unmannedspaceflight]

@csisatyr The Airbag landing system for Spirit and Opportunity was itself, a recycled landing system from the 1997 Mars Pathfinder mission. However, Curiosity is so much heavier ( about 5 x heavier than Spirit and Opportunity ) that the Airbag landing system simply wouldn't work.

[IdoloR]

Incredible, can not wait :D

[bitiminicik]

Where is the chip that has my name on it?

[wakadododo]

How lucky we are to live in this time. The first moment in human history, when we are infact, parachuting a dropcrane jetpackrover.

[themardybum08]

Can't wait! So much to go wrong though : (

[DaBamBamMan]

@themardybum08 Just getting the thing to mars is a wonder in itself, if they can do that every time, then they can land it on a planet with a hell of a lot less atomo than earth.