Opportunity Reaches Next Destination on Mars

[jmborr]

the went that far just to find such a crappy place?

[SaleADL]

What kind of camera is this??? Stupid or fake?

[GalacticMarine2012]

The operator of the rover has one of the most interesting and awesome jobs ever... Lucky!

[IWannabeJew]

Looks like Utah.

[WebsiteToSell]

Mars is a very interesting planet. Excellent video feed. I'm going to start following the developments closer.

[MrLewooz]

That little stuff did it after all !!! long life opportunity.

[Rg2732]

Good job, Oppy! :)

[denisisus]

nice job, investigaters!!!!!

[AntiProtonBoy]

What a little trooper.

[uetzel]

mars never seemed so real..... let's heat that shit up!

[purplesaint100]

i hope to there before i reach the heaven, mars iam coming, a wonderful world.

[purplesaint100]

i hope to there before i reach the heaven, mars iam coming

[FreedomRingsToday]

This is wonderful and amazing. I hope we see people on Mars in the near future, colonizing and studying the planet. Super pictures!

[alezi72]

go Opportunity....go Opportunity....

[Vanquishas]

@lee8264 Don't know, haven't seen any interesting features. Maybe only those sand ripples, but it's completely normal with winds in the desert.

[jasleil]

This rover is way past due her prime time on Mars and still going strong. It's said that her twin is dead now. I wonder if Opportunity will be able to get to the other side of Mars. If Opportunity is able to get the other side of Mars, I think that the first thing for Opportunity (other than geographic exploration) will be looking for her twin, Spirit. RIP Spirit.

[MrHoopler]

Whoever is driving that thing should be given a sobriety test.

[byteresistor]

3 years to travel 11 miles? Are we really that bad in robotics?

[karadan100]

@byteresistor Wow, way to make yourself look dumb.

[byteresistor]

@karadan100 I am aware that the rover occasionally stops to take pictures and soil samples but still, even excluding that, it would still take months and months to travel that relatively short distance in one go. It does show how unadvanced we are in robotics.

[Ormaaj]

@byteresistor It's quite hard to write software to interpret images to come up with safe paths around obstacles well enough to have a car drive itself on earth, let alone a robot on a rocky terrain on another planet which light can take several minutes to reach. It has to do a lot of careful pathfinding on it's own. Plus it's solar powered. It doesn't have a lot of energy for all it's computers and sensors plus motors to move around with.

MSL will use RTGs for more reliable power.

[karadan100]

@byteresistor You completely forgot to mention the fact it takes a few hours for signals to reach Mars from Earth and vice-versa. You didn't think they were piloting them in real-time did you?

We are very advanced with robotics but AI (which is what you are really referring to) is in its infancy. As soon as we can create viable artificial minds, then yes, these trips around Mars will become far quicker. Until then, it's baby steps.

[hitssquad]

@byteresistor "3 years to travel 11 miles? Are we really that bad in robotics?"

No. NASA has the MSL, which can travel over a mile per day: en. wikipedia. org/wiki/ Mars_Science_Laboratory

[mostlylogical]

crazy eyes

[peppeddu]

Spirit and Opportunity are simply two amazing machines.

Built to last only for 90 days, running for over SIX years.

Whomever team designed and built them, NASA better keep them real tight.

IMHO they've exceeded the quality of the two Voyagers probes, even if those are running for longer period of time.

[jodahs]

I totally thought they had both stopped functioning. Great to know Opportunity is still rolling along, keeping our presence on Mars alive.

[MemberMan080]

Bring back the shuttle and put some extra rockets on it and send it to Mars. It wouldn't be hard to find people for this task. Plenty of people would do it even if they were unable to return to Earth. A small sacrafice for Mankind.

[inka9]

@MemberMan080 great! do you volunteer?

[Vanquishas]

@lee8264 What's so interesting? Rock? Sand?

[miles2057]

Very interesting. I would love to know more about this mission and some of the information and results that the scientists have come up with in regards to the Mars surface, what it consists of etc ,etc.

As always, great video,NASAtelevision. Thank you.

[Jamie246100]

can't wait for curiosity now

[Grillzor]

I wonder how long it takes for a picture to come back from the rover. If the ISS Internet speed is as slow as dial up, this must be slower than Sneaker Net.

[MrSupercat9]

Yes live stream! It was really cool to see the complete path. And the perspective of scale was nice!

[IamYoddle]

You guys should have a live stream of the rovers driving around Mars, that would be awesome

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[ZhangyXD]

no sound =/

[Odin412z]

Awesome! Go NASA!

[DaithiDublin]

It's a privilege to consider clips like this routine. Just to be able to imagine that while I'm sitting here looking over the edge of a crater on another planet, that little bugger is tootling around up there doing it's thing. I've been shaking my head in dismay at footage of the English riots, now I shaking it in awe. Where's the middle ground, I wonder.

[xXLifeObservedXx]

@DaithiDublin Desperate House Wives.

[beachcomber2008]

@DaithiDublin That is indeed a strange middle ground

I am truly amazed that the rover is still going. More discoveries for free...

A truly wonderful achievement

[YayoCummins]

looks like groom lake... conspiracy lol

[TheTrashBringeer]

pause at 1:19 it looks like an old stone road 0.0

[ELuhn]

This little sucker's lasted longer than my car.

[Holmesy87]

The 1:13-1:26 part where you see it from the Rovers point of view is hilarious if you play the Benny Hill theme song with it xD

[cyanman123]

Why use black and white?????????????????

[EVAUnit4A]

@cyanman123

Just like in the oldest days of television, the bandwidth is intentionally smaller so it's easier to get out faster back to Earth; color takes more power and time to send.

[ELuhn]

@cyanman123 It requires less data. Quicker and easier to transmit to Earth.

[handplanty]

@ELuhn but surely it'd be worth it? Ah, in any other case there's a spectrometer aboard.

[ELuhn]

@handplanty Well yes, they pick and choose. For 'navigation,' I imagine, they use B&W for quick feedback, and for the first survey of an area. Then for more in-depth analysis they switch to color.

[mikigm89]

These things are amazing!!!! Great job NASA!

[Morain42]

thanks NasaTV, for being a T.V

[caiocrz]

WHY CANT WE SEE MORE?

[winterstellar]

Hey, footprints! I saw them! (Just kidding: )

[f40f50enzof60]

News flash: Mars rover confirms that Mars was just a hoax. Story at 11.

[ToothNroost]

@f40f50enzof60 Wtf are u talking about? Cause i dont Know..

[MrBennetzen]

@f40f50enzof60 News Flash: Your an idiot, and we are going to Mars with Curosity.

[f40f50enzof60]

@MrBennetzen News Flash: You can't detect sarcasm.

[accd1d]

congrats guys, so for how long is Opportunity going to be rimming this crater for.

[600etecXRS]

I am sure there was or ís water on Mars

[hackneysaregreat]

Incredible pictures, thanks again

[mrspogg]

I want these pictures. How can I get them?

[KrissiBenassi]

i thought howard got stuck with the rover while he tried to impress a girl?!

[thebossisheretostay]

incredible, but you guys are looking on the wrong rock, they found transformers on the moon

[EVAUnit4A]

@thebossisheretostay

Aww, beat me to it! XD

But, lest you forget- they DID find TFs on Mars in the first film, remember?

[thebossisheretostay]

@EVAUnit4A *documentary oh i dont remember. touche

[EVAUnit4A]

@thebossisheretostay

The lost Beagle-2 probe landed successfully [in the movie] and transmitted for only 13 seconds before a Cybertronian cut it off. (The pre-film comic book suggests the 'bot was Bumblebee in the transmission before he came to Earth.)

[pifroggi]

@thebossisheretostay in the first transformers they are on the mars ;)

[ZeroC0ol1989]

I would love to see a slower version of that timelapse video of the rover traveling over the surface of mars!

[FadhlurZahri]

Nice