Mars Rover Spirit's Entire Journey on Mars - Time Lapse - 6FPS

This video is composed of 3,418 frames taken by Spirit's front-right hazcam played back at 6 frames per second. The images are either 1024 x1024, 512 x 512, or 256 x 256 pixels.

This time-lapse covers 4.8 miles of driving over the course of 5 years, 3 months, 27 days.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Mars
• rover
• spirit
• nasa
• jet propulsion laboratory
• mars
• robot

[nikstefonov]

it's so sad watching this machine dies alone on this freakin planet

[NinjaCameraman]

@hazuki81 Five years in 10 minutes tends to do that.

[maxsil89]

@hgdm89 what?

[silentsmokey]

6:47 somehow they broke the front right wheel of the rover....then had to learn how to drive it backwards.

[hgdm89]

did it have a lab inside?

[ReligiousZombie]

Six frames per second, yet still a higher quality video than most on YouTube.

[christiantheodorus]

sad to hear this robot dies in that red planet

[talaxian1]

is there a 6 frames with music?

[Brokoro]

@disgruntledgoat It had been thought of... -...-

The obvious fact of the matter is the 408 lb Spirit rover still weighed 252 lbs (the weight of a pretty fat guy) on Mars and the arm wouldn't be able to get anywhere near the strength that would need to lift it, not to mention the surface it was stuck on would have just gave way to the arm attempting to push itself against it since the surface area of the wheel wasn't enough to save it.

And the longer they kept the project, more $

[nashertheatheist]

@disgruntledgoat

It probably doesn't have anything near the strength required. It could be like trying to do a press-up with your little finger.