Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover Animation

This 11-minute animation depicts key events of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, which will launch in late 2011 and land a rover, Curiosity, on Mars in August 2012. A shorter 4-minute version of this animation, with narration, is also available on our youtube page.

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[will atkinson]

Personally i think they should have included a little solarpanel and battery so the probe isnt useless when the RGTs run out (in a decade or two) but what the fuck do i know about rocket science

[serpentphoenix]

people stop asking questions on YouTube . USE your resources, like wikipedia, nasa.org and its ntrs documents . Also, people stop acting like rocket engineers, unless you actually ARE rocket engineers (KSP players do not qualify) .

[Elvis Presley]

Check the 1.23 minute... it's like a fucking U.F.O, OVNI...WE ARE THE FUCKING ALIENS!!!

[Sergei Vlachlenjko]

I like the way that if you listen really carefully you can hear the wind whisper.. I mean, like wtf! xD

[chakresh singh]

Exhilarating.

[RoddersKD]

Awww but I love KSP

[Testuranas]

Wow it's very nice but very dangerous. Вау это очень хорошо но очень опасно.

[will atkinson]

Woop

[will atkinson]

Love u chicken <3 big fan =)

[victor6250]

Musicalwolfe! :D

[BrainMutant]

co tam brzęczysz pod nosem?

[Chickenkeeper24]

There are three possible reasons I can think of to answer that question.

1) It's the size of a small car so there may be hardware,motor or power limitations involved

2) You wouldn't want to tell a multi-billion dollar rover to drive fast along rocky or bumpy terrain and have it accidentally hit something and be destroyed or permanently damaged. There is a 16 minute delay in communications between earth and mars after all, so it would be far too late before anyone could tell it to stop