Mars Rover Opportunity Landing

[zowmaster]

How did the pictures come back so fast?

[xzaz2]

@zowmaster Email, jk... it took some time though.. it is just a datastream that is send from the Orbiter of Mars then send to earth and encoded from data to pictures.. just like your browser does.

[navid500]

MACS were used to make Avatar!

Well, PCs were used by NASA...who lands things on fucking Mars.

[michellemag83]

This is what passion and hard work looks like!

[bjm351]

so if this is meant to be the `opportunity` rover then how come you hear them say our first look at another world.........i think theyre forgetting they sent `Spirit`

[bubblinbrownsugar616]

@bjm351 Well the place Opportunity landed was territory never seen with human eyes. The same can be said for any other spacecraft that lands on Mars. There are so many geological characteristics of Mars, one space landing can't count for the entire planet. When Curiosity successfully lands (fingers cross) the area it's exploring will be different from what Spirit and Opportunity have seen and once again, will be a first for humans to explore.

[bjm351]

@bubblinbrownsugar616 well then they shouldve said a new area of Mars, not a new world! anyway the other rover has taken 5 years to travel 7 km and sent 10 million pics of the same old rocks and tyre tracks ( wich dont show up on google Mars) and hasnt really justified its huge price tag. theyre an absolute waste of time and money, i wouldve thought in 2011 we would be sending something decent to explore the planet not souped RC cars that get bogged and cant climb mountains etc!! my 2 cents lol

[ArabAstronomy]

If I was in the radio I'd say "WE TOUCHED MARS DAMMIT!! :D"

[JBiswoman]

I wish i can be one of these people with the BEST JOB in the world

[CUNTservativesRDung]

LOLOL!! I love Wayne Lee and that flag t-shirt. He made sure he was seen in a history book!! :)

Can't wait for Curiosity!!!

By the way I wonder if Arnold is going to give that broom to his maid. You know, as a gift .......

[michellemag83]

It's Wall-E! All jokes aside.. this video made me tear up. Great work!

[benji5]

uber geek out

[News107]

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[deathofgod100]

i wonder if we will ever go to mars to take back Spirit and Opportunity

[spiritneverdie1]

so cool! :D

[fnanfne]

Humans kickass!

[generalgreniuk]

ah! stop clapind!

[mvandeven]

yay... al gore poking his dumb nose in. get lost.

[Chronobeanz]

It's kinda strange to think that they're celebrating 3 minutes too late.

[RTR9]

there like damn we should of sent a human got a fuckin robot there shit lol

[Clarknipolo]

studip american Nasa not conquisted mars, w esa!!! europe conquisted mars! unione sovietica u.r.s.s. cina. italy... american fike lol in the world , europe the king of the world

[eviscero]

@Clarknipolo lol wut?

[Chronobeanz]

@Clarknipolo

We did?

[wiggarigga]

Look how big of a moment it was just landing them. Then think how they have gone like 7 times their expected lives

[JBJones66]

what about the first rover??

[lexagon77]

this is the culmination of so much brilliance, I can hardly make sense of it.

[kossmikham]

Uh... you do realize that the video of the bouncing bubble shell is an animation, right? That it's not actual images being transmitted from Mars, right? Only images shot *FROM* the rover are real and being transmitted from Mars, right? You do understand the difference between images taken by the rover and animations showing the rover, right? That they didn't have cameras set up on Mars, exactly where the rover was going to land, awaiting its arrival, right? I hope so. I really, really hope so.

[xzaz2]

Dude, i mean 4:32, you can see the dataflow in the list behind the real photo. Ofcourse i know the animation isn't real lol. Then at 5:23 you can see the images popuping up. Thats what i mean.

[kossmikham]

OK, I see. When you said "bits flying over" I thought you were referring to 0:53 (dirt getting thrown around). I don't think of bits as "flying", but getting transmitted, no different than from a digital broadcasting station on earth, just farther.

With that cleared away, I will say watching this landing succeed in January 2004 was truly an inspiration to me as well. I'm an engineer, and I can certainly identify with moments like this.

[bshaun2]

It's showing the currant commands that the rover is acting on, Not necessarily the data that they are receiving from the vehicle.

[xzaz2]

command's are data... data != photo's..

[thefedexpope]

Yeah this is cool and all but really it's kind of boring. It's like throwing a rover onto the nevada desert. Where is the exciting streaming videos or the remote control car racing...we'll look back on this in 20 years and think of how pathetic we were.

[astrorider]

I don't think anyone ridiculed the invention of rafts.

[spannerboy72]

This'nt isnt a hollywood movie mate. If you want "action" go hire a movie.

Reality involves HARD WORK. There is absolutely nothing "pathetic" about what these people have achieved.

[musicismysoulO8]

That was an amazing rover.

But, was she the one that died?

or was that Spirit?

[astrorider]

Phoenix died earlier this month.

[bigduggieface]

Possibly the greatest technical achievement made by the human species.

What's next?

[kossmikham]

You must not know a whole lot about the history of science and engineering achievements. This one, while great, is probably one of very few you happen to know about, because it happened to be on TV.

[PelasgicMoon]

respect for science

[heithmann]

This, in my opinion, is well spent money! Hope one day the money the world spend for military goes to the searching of knowledge or to improve the human condition!

[Andybucker]

I strongly agree!

[Qaf01]

amazing u americans are something special all u need now is a good leader to guide you vote out bush and vote in obama just imagen how he would inspire scientist like kennedy did in the past

[daveatx]

President Bush actually lit a fire under NASA and reenergized the department to get us back to the moon and an eventual manned mission to Mars. So suck it.

[clintonswhiteboi]

oh yeah president bush is so great, he totally FUCKED this country up.

[daveatx]

he was a 1000 times better than clinton, boi....clinton was too busy getting a blowjob to be concerned about osama who was planning out 9/11.

[clintonswhiteboi]

i fail to understand how he was even anywhere better than clinton was. you're obviously just one of those deluded conservative americans

[daveatx]

You're obviously a cheese-eating French surrender monkey.

[astrorider]

off topic.....

[TachieBillano]

"A cheese-eating French surrender monkey"? Mmmfffsnort snicker nyuk nyuk. Where (and what bygone era) does this daveatx dude come from? His words are so out, they're not even comments, more like comets.

[bubblinbrownsugar616]

I understand what your saying. Please don't believe all Americans are as ignorant as daveatx. Obviously he (or she) is the 29% that still thinks Bush is doing a good job as President.

Getting back to the topic, personally, I love the fact that if they want humans to land on Mars, it HAS to be a worldwide event not just NASA or ESA or JAXA alone. This is just absolutely...out of this world!!! LOL!!! :)

[xzaz2]

Tonight European time! Another one!!

[Cryo2008]

Almost made me cry lol

[esmorunninglighter]

Me to :) it's amazing what mankind can achieve

[ShiroSenda]

Human kind, there are ladies there too. And yes, this is amazing.

[clintonswhiteboi]

dude, mankind includes both sexes

[ShiroSenda]

I know, I just think since there is a better word that is sex neutral, we should use it.

[ssfreeman29]

How smart do you have to be to be in that room?

[astrorider]

You'd have to be a genius. Well, a created genius. You can make your way there if you try.

[achievist]

Humanity at its best!

Anyone got the similar video for the Spirit landing? The euphoria was higher for that one because it was the first of the two to land.

[Enoo87]

Humanity FTW !!!

[blazerblast]

lol

[blazerblast]

at 1:44 that guy keeps hitting him and hitting him,the other guy is crying but everyone thinks hes happy at 1:53 hes trying to bear hug the guy to death

by choking him down and everyone thinks hes giving him a friendly hugg,at 2:03 he try's to give him a right hook punch,the another guy stops him first,2:18 he's mad,you can see he was never happy at ALL

[Podness]

He's a Martian secret agent.

[blazerblast]

wow there all getting exited by the quality of cgi,lmfao

[fusionstar916]

actually, they have no imagery, its just for us... all they have are numbers and radio.

[gab1279]

Pictures from MARS, how fracking awesome is that? :D I'm so in awe I want to cry! I can't wait until we set foot on it someday.

[swagger93]

Hell yeah! One of humanity's greatest achievements.

[thenekom]

And yet, still so underrated. The average schmuck probably doesn't even realize that they are still going. Truly NASA's greatest success since the moon landing.

[Penfish2k]

al gore not Schwarzenegger

[astrorider]

yes al gore was there TOO.

[kelvinsmells]

wow this should deserve more views, it's an importnant part in space explortation