Complete Mars Curiosity Descent - Full Quality Enhanced HD 1080p Landing + Heat Shield impact

This is a full-resolution version of the NASA Curiosity rover descent to Mars and landing, taken by the MARDI descent imager. As of August 20, all but a dozen 1600x1200 frames have been uploaded from the rover, and those missing were interpolated using thumbnail data. The result was applied a heavy noise reduction, color balance, and sharpening for best visibility.

The video plays at 15fps, or 3x realtime. The heat shield impacts in the lower left frame at 0:21, and is shown enlarged at the end of the video. Image source: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimed...

High resolution composite image of source photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixiebat... (Pixiebat)

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[indoguju]

Why would anyone dislike this... Humans are amazing...

[Anubis78250]

We don't get "raw footage" of any of this stuff.

In a sense everything NASA gives us is "fake".

All of it is touched up like a cosmetic's model in a magazine.

This is just as "fake" as those.

No, I don't believe this is "faked" as in they never landed a rover on mars, I do however believe this video is "faked" in terms of "altered".

[TrappingWithEdgar]

Was A satellite Recording this?

[canyonblue737]

That is actual photos taken from Curiosity that were then put in order and played back as a video at accelerated rate. That was the real thing.

[TrappingWithEdgar]

This Is 3D Animation Right?

[connor129s]

how long? just wondering. Or have you not got a clue lol

[DarPower1]

America, doing what its best at.

[Monster LMA]

well Russia never said it was fake their scientists would of been the first to prove and never given up but guess what none complained.

[Monster LMA]

Wow you got half of that right but not all americans train their children to shoot people.

[James Rod]

Just do it. It's just a school project, not commercial use, and also this is nothing more than a collection of publicly available images put together so there's no reason for him to copyright it.