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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[UtubeIsBadNews]

Times like these, I wish I could live forever to experience all the greatest space exploration has to offer.

[indoguju]

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

[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.

[кириллко стехахев]

ахуеть!!!

[Kristine Pham]

Hi, do you think I can use this clip for a school project? :) It won't be used for profit and I will be happy to credit you!

[CBilly91]

and you're telling me this? not the person i was talking to? are you conscious?

[n3tkUt]

Video would take a very long time to beam back to Earth, and would not be worth the resources. The rovers are not there to entertain, their job is to collect data. Video would contain little practical information, but would be a giant burden on the connection. Cool as it would be, there's just no scientific need for it right now.