Landing On Mars Like You've Never Seen It Before

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  • Опубликовано: 29 май 2024
  • Perseverance had 6 engineering cameras on it which were active during descent and landing to document the process in more detail than we'd ever seen before. The engineers had never seen their skycrane at work before since it was impossible to test on Earth.
    In the end only 5 of the cameras worked, and the microphone failed to record anything during the descent. But the results are still spectacular!
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  • @freespam9236
    @freespam9236 3 года назад +1984

    Sky Crane: Fly safe
    Scott Manley: Fly to victory
    Sky Crane: wait what?

    • @gamertron0882
      @gamertron0882 3 года назад +6

      .....

    • @LaughingOrange
      @LaughingOrange 3 года назад +72

      It crashed minutes after successful deployment of its payload, as planned

    • @grahamrankin4725
      @grahamrankin4725 3 года назад +33

      Too bad it wasn't planned to land softly.

    • @bielanski2493
      @bielanski2493 3 года назад +11

      MY MANWICH!!

    • @mihailkondov4773
      @mihailkondov4773 3 года назад +118

      That's the moment when the sky crane realized there were in fact no other sky cranes behind the dune to help it land and it had been lied to.

  • @user-el6ve2rl9b
    @user-el6ve2rl9b 3 года назад +834

    when scott manley no longer says "fly safe" you know shit got real

    • @rawnukles
      @rawnukles 3 года назад +34

      dare to fly riskily

    • @OrenTirosh
      @OrenTirosh 3 года назад +15

      Fly... safely away from Percy, please

    • @whatislove127
      @whatislove127 3 года назад +4

      more like go become trash elsewhere :D

    • @CzlowiekImadlo
      @CzlowiekImadlo 3 года назад +24

      He didn't say "fly safe" because sky crane is meant to crash

    • @Kevin_Street
      @Kevin_Street 3 года назад +11

      Exactly, CzlowiekImadlo. There's no safety for the sky crane, but at least we can wish it a glorious passage to Valhalla.
      Actually it just went off to rust somewhere.

  • @crad12891
    @crad12891 3 года назад +194

    Perseverance: "Tango Delta"
    *Detaching Cables*
    Skycrane: *Commencing YEET*

    • @GH3_Posh
      @GH3_Posh 3 года назад +6

      I respect this comment. 🤣🤣🤣

    • @thenasadude6878
      @thenasadude6878 3 года назад +14

      I wouldn't be surprised if the name of the fly away program was indeed YEET. To make it official they usually attach a very fake backronym to it, like Your External cranE Termination

    • @dakotahrickard
      @dakotahrickard 2 года назад

      Makes me think of that scene with the tow cables in Empire Strikes Back.
      They should name the next Skycrane after the gunner flying with Wedge Antilles that shot the cable at the ATAT.

  • @OGSontar
    @OGSontar 3 года назад +92

    Decoding..."They sent me to Mars, and all I got was this lousy parachute."

    • @dsdy1205
      @dsdy1205 3 года назад +8

      Everyone at Ames who spent hours upon hours on the world's largest supersonic parachute: "Am I a joke to you?"

  • @ares106
    @ares106 3 года назад +214

    These videos are like getting a guide in a museum. If you want you could just walk around and see the exhibits, but having a guide makes everything so much more interesting.

  • @pi1392
    @pi1392 3 года назад +1420

    Actually just seeing a real sky of another planet is just mind-blowing to me.

    • @aqeelraja4750
      @aqeelraja4750 3 года назад +35

      @Johnny Silverhand he said ‘another planet’ bruh 😐

    • @anonpls9909
      @anonpls9909 3 года назад +38

      I hope they send something to Venus again and we get to see more pictures from there

    • @ImieNazwiskoOK
      @ImieNazwiskoOK 3 года назад +7

      @@anonpls9909 I don't think we would see much in Venus weather

    • @GalileoAV
      @GalileoAV 3 года назад +13

      Agreed, there's something special about a foreign horizon.

    • @thebigpicture2032
      @thebigpicture2032 3 года назад +30

      Aqeel Raja I’m guessing Johnny is a flat earther. Complete with requisite misspelling.

  • @-macabe3218
    @-macabe3218 3 года назад +154

    This has got to be one of the most mindblowing piece of photography ever done in space science/exploration

    • @-danR
      @-danR 3 года назад +10

      It makes the idea of boots on the ground all the more real again.

    • @claudiusdunclius2045
      @claudiusdunclius2045 3 года назад +7

      @@-danR Or, arguably, irrelevant and/or quaintly obsolete. ;-)

    • @3rsullivan
      @3rsullivan 3 года назад +5

      agree 100%. Just amazing. Seeing the descent stage hovering was just the coolest thing ever.

    • @DrDeuteron
      @DrDeuteron 3 года назад +1

      better win a pulitzer

    • @widicamdotnet
      @widicamdotnet 3 года назад +4

      The most mindblowing thing about it is that it took over 20 years of landing rovers on mars before they got around to sticking on a couple of "throwaway" camera modules to let the engineers evaluate their landing method, instead of just getting "it worked" or "it didn't work" as a feedback. At least Curiosity could have had all those cameras - it may have made less sense with the "bouncy castle" landing method of the twins in 2004.

  • @classicfrog80
    @classicfrog80 3 года назад +41

    The fact that it is the real footage and not CGI is so surreal!

    • @consubandon
      @consubandon 3 года назад +3

      We have entered the 'post-truth' age of exploration.

    • @MrChuck78929
      @MrChuck78929 3 года назад

      Yeah sure it is. Just like the moon landing lol /s

    • @TinyMoMosWorld
      @TinyMoMosWorld 3 года назад

      And how could you possibly tell that from this video you puppet

    • @kali6651
      @kali6651 3 года назад +3

      @@TinyMoMosWorld Oh man you must be so woke. Tell me more about the flat earth, George Bush and 9/11.

  • @shadowrunner2323
    @shadowrunner2323 3 года назад +120

    I foresee Perseverance ASMR mixes in the future XD
    "Rover rolling 10 hours"

    • @ccarson
      @ccarson 3 года назад +4

      Hopefully without that high pitched tone.

    • @xeigen2
      @xeigen2 3 года назад +5

      @@ccarson Should be easy to remove with a notch filter.

    • @samarvora7185
      @samarvora7185 3 года назад +9

      Rover roving 10 hours. There, fixed it.

    • @THIS---GUY
      @THIS---GUY 3 года назад

      @@ccarson NASA already split the two up on the press conference lol

    • @nobeltnium
      @nobeltnium 3 года назад

      i knew i'm not the only one thought of this haha

  • @StevenKoehl
    @StevenKoehl 3 года назад +637

    The breakdown of the Mars landing I’ve eagerly been waiting on!

    • @8bviews91
      @8bviews91 3 года назад +1

      my channel has the title of most viewed video.

    • @Dr_Kenneth_Noisewater
      @Dr_Kenneth_Noisewater 3 года назад +7

      I haven’t really seen it until Scott Manley shows me all the stuff I missed.

    • @x0myspace0x
      @x0myspace0x 3 года назад +1

      If you want a better breakdown and some in-depth discussions, be sure to watch the live stream that NASA did on Monday where they revealed all these images.

  • @menuly
    @menuly 3 года назад +68

    From above it's hard to tell if its 10,000 meters or 10 meters off the ground.

    • @mk1st
      @mk1st 3 года назад +2

      Yes I thought that too.

    • @TheEvilmooseofdoom
      @TheEvilmooseofdoom 3 года назад +12

      Nothing familiar for our eyes to get scale from.

    • @dropsnooze5274
      @dropsnooze5274 3 года назад +4

      ikr. Even though I roughly now the distances from further out, like what the radius of the landing site was, how far apart these craters are, it's just so hard if not impossible for me to grasp how far away they were in each situation. Yeah they call it on the radio but it's just so hard to comprehend

  • @jimmyzhao9748
    @jimmyzhao9748 3 года назад +143

    The mission paradox, The Parachute let them down, the Sky-crane let them down, yet the landing was successful.

    • @TheReaverOfDarkness
      @TheReaverOfDarkness 3 года назад +21

      Gravity let them down, but the Parachute and the Sky-crane held them aloft long enough to save them.

    • @Noughmad
      @Noughmad 3 года назад +49

      Atlas gonna give you up, Parachute gonna let you down, Skycrane gonna fly around and desert you.

    • @Vatsyayana87
      @Vatsyayana87 3 года назад +5

      I believe something like that is NASAs internal moto.

    • @CarlJohnson-xz1rs
      @CarlJohnson-xz1rs 3 года назад +4

      Of course, just like the rick astley paradox

    • @yamdood1
      @yamdood1 3 года назад

      Niether the parachute let them down nor the sky crane the both did their job as expected the paradox is in your head that is incapable of comprending the science behind it.

  • @invisghosty
    @invisghosty 3 года назад +557

    I refused to watch the other videos with this footage because I wanted an excited Scottish man to describe stuff about it to me!

    • @million_heir5298
      @million_heir5298 3 года назад +13

      Definitely everyone here

    • @charimuvilla8693
      @charimuvilla8693 3 года назад +2

      same

    • @georgf9279
      @georgf9279 3 года назад +8

      I watched Astrums short and left a dislike because it was vertical video. Then I waited for a proper video. Thanks Scott.

    • @Kineth1
      @Kineth1 3 года назад +10

      @@georgf9279 Thank you for supporting the eradication of vertical video.

    • @JohnDoe-tx8lq
      @JohnDoe-tx8lq 3 года назад +2

      I need an excited Scott to commentate on the NFL Super Bowl to explain what's going on... would make the 4 hours fly by! 😁

  • @RRFlash
    @RRFlash 3 года назад +566

    I didn't notice a lot of the things you mentioned in the videos... that's why ur videos are worth the wait

    • @wictimovgovonca320
      @wictimovgovonca320 3 года назад +3

      Yes, I saw the same videos yesterday but got a lot more out of them now.

    • @Hagop64
      @Hagop64 3 года назад +14

      I heard it was a successful landing and immediately thought "Cool, I'll just wait for Scott to post video with commentary on all the good bits for in depth coverage of the landing."

    • @-danR
      @-danR 3 года назад +5

      Manley-rich explanation.

    • @claudiusdunclius2045
      @claudiusdunclius2045 3 года назад +10

      Not to take anything away from Scott’s cogent-as-usual coverage, but if you’d watched the JPL press briefing yesterday morning, you’d have learned all those things - except for the decoding of the parachute riddle! The JPL mission leaders discussed them in detail, and I’m sure Scott himself tuned in to listen before he did his video. What I’m really curious about is whether Scott figured out the parachute code himself, or had ‘inside information’ thru his contacts at JPL... Decoding it wasn’t trivial, or so it seems to me. ;-)

    • @-danR
      @-danR 3 года назад +3

      @@claudiusdunclius2045
      Did they explain the hydrazine exhaust visual paradox?

  • @davidallen111
    @davidallen111 3 года назад +4

    Scott does a much better job editing and presenting NASA's raw footage of the Perseverance descent and landing than any other I have seen. Thank you Scott Manley.

  • @edwardhewer8530
    @edwardhewer8530 3 года назад +7

    This is a good start to the year. Vision of the landing is incredible. The parachute opening while travelling faster than a rifle bullet. The deliberate positioning for the landing and the lowering down from the sky crane. You can imagine the tension on the JPL team leading up to this moment. What an epic achievement.

  • @fastindy
    @fastindy 3 года назад +60

    "What matters is the amount of thrust, not the amount of fire and flame and spectacle."
    You really had me going there, Scott. For a few years I thought you knew what you were talking about.

    • @Jesse__H
      @Jesse__H 3 года назад +2

      eh?

    • @ppsarrakis
      @ppsarrakis 3 года назад +5

      @@Jesse__H I think it's a joke

  • @anthonyc5039
    @anthonyc5039 3 года назад +179

    So if I forget my phone charger, there is Finally an extra USB port on Mars. 🙏

    • @Forest_Fifer
      @Forest_Fifer 3 года назад +10

      Mark watney will be able to plug into it without having to rewire anything

    • @oijqwoijdowiqjdqw
      @oijqwoijdowiqjdqw 3 года назад +8

      Just don't forget to bring adapter to the latest usb-mini-micro-cxyz your telephone uses

    • @enterprisesoftwarearchitect
      @enterprisesoftwarearchitect 3 года назад

      Or maybe there’s an extra one in the Tesla Roadster

    • @frommeslaemmchen
      @frommeslaemmchen 3 года назад +1

      and it's powered by an RTG...i wonder how many times you can charge your phone with it

    • @KevinSmith-ys3mh
      @KevinSmith-ys3mh 3 года назад +4

      @@frommeslaemmchen Well, based on my recent views & reading this RTG is rated at 110W electric output at launch day.
      Fuel is pellets of Plutonium-238 with a 74 year 1/2 life (I recalled) vs bomb or reactor grade Pu-239 of 24,000 year 1/2 life, so much greater heat released per day.
      Assuming a constant linear system output drop over time, it may have 55W output in 74 years, maybe 25W in 150 years, 12W in 225 years? I seriously doubt your cellphone will last that long.😆😆
      Hopefully it will be still powering an adjoining educational display at the Marsopolis children's museum by then! 🤔

  • @jonepomuk
    @jonepomuk 3 года назад +6

    They should hire Scott for NASAs PR department. This is so much more informative and entertaining than the official channels...

  • @drywinddotnet
    @drywinddotnet 3 года назад +45

    SkyCrane flying away playing DARE . . . "Don't . . . Don't you want me"

  • @spudicous
    @spudicous 3 года назад +264

    Fun fact, the terrain matching navigation system on perseverance is derived from the TERNAV system on the BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile.

    • @guy_in_ashopping_cart-sfs967
      @guy_in_ashopping_cart-sfs967 3 года назад +42

      atleast somthing good came out of cruise missiles

    • @spudicous
      @spudicous 3 года назад +36

      @@guy_in_ashopping_cart-sfs967 I assume you mean besides all of the cool explosions.

    • @EstorilEm
      @EstorilEm 3 года назад +15

      @@guy_in_ashopping_cart-sfs967 they got a lot of work done in Iraq 👌

    • @ArDiaN_Music
      @ArDiaN_Music 3 года назад +34

      @@EstorilEm He said "something good", there is not good things in wars

    • @morerightrudder9742
      @morerightrudder9742 3 года назад +14

      @@ArDiaN_Music You mean beside being a catalyst for technological advancement?

  • @vintatsh
    @vintatsh 3 года назад +25

    The sky crane just booking it after it successfully dropped the rover is the coolest thing I've seen in a while.
    That is a job well done.

    • @remondx8880
      @remondx8880 3 года назад +3

      Yeah it was fucking cool mate

    • @tonyholm77
      @tonyholm77 3 года назад +4

      Same here, the whole operation is really impressive but when it cut the cables and flew away i lost it, looks so freaking cool!

    • @davidharrison7014
      @davidharrison7014 3 года назад

      Where are the cables cut? Next to the rover or next to the sky crane?
      And if they're cut next to the crane, would that mean having the Perserverance Rover dragging the cables around every time it drives along the Martian surface?

    • @tonyholm77
      @tonyholm77 3 года назад +2

      @@davidharrison7014 they are cut by the rover, you can actually see the cut on one of the early pictures.

  • @ianglenn2821
    @ianglenn2821 3 года назад +121

    Top anagrams for future people to misinterpret "dare-mighty-things":
    "Earths - mighty - ding"
    "Shiny - mirth - gadget"
    "My - great - hindsight"
    "Shagged - thirty - min"
    "Grind - meaty- thighs"
    omg there's so many haha!

    • @Automatic-Diaphragm
      @Automatic-Diaphragm 3 года назад +15

      shagged thirty min lol

    • @InventorZahran
      @InventorZahran 3 года назад +1

      Are you figuring these out yourself, or using a computer program?

    • @ianglenn2821
      @ianglenn2821 3 года назад +9

      @@InventorZahran haha well looking at the parachute code, all I saw were the "shagged" possibilities, but I used a program for the rest :)

    • @ianglenn2821
      @ianglenn2821 3 года назад +5

      @mug wump nice ones, plus "mighty threading" is so appropriate for the parachute!

    • @arnabbiswasalsodeep
      @arnabbiswasalsodeep 3 года назад +2

      Grind meaty thighs. Yess. Ofc

  • @LouseGrouse
    @LouseGrouse 3 года назад +27

    Hearing the wind on another planet is just so amazing

    • @brandonm30
      @brandonm30 3 года назад +5

      Huygens also had a microphone and recorded titans wind.

    • @dantreadwell7421
      @dantreadwell7421 3 года назад +1

      I know. Hearing that over the mechanical sound was just... yea. I don't have words.

  • @Badgermatt-nc5nr
    @Badgermatt-nc5nr 3 года назад +311

    Tommorw, on the Mars microphone we will hear, tap tap tap, "ummm is this thing on?" LOL

    • @RingingResonance
      @RingingResonance 3 года назад +10

      Hey, listen up down there! That thing is called an elevator, not a bathroom!

    • @Edax_Royeaux
      @Edax_Royeaux 3 года назад +4

      Hope we don't here that hum from the movie Mission to Mars, otherwise a giant tornado will spin the rover to death.

    • @MattMcIrvin
      @MattMcIrvin 3 года назад +3

      "test 1... 2... 3... sibilance... sibilance..."

    • @notmenotme614
      @notmenotme614 3 года назад +6

      "ERAD? Whats ERAD"?
      "Dunno, but I've found this funny looking shopping trolley"

    • @mtpaley1
      @mtpaley1 3 года назад

      @@notmenotme614 No it will be 'tap tap' - nothing. It takes too long to say 'you are on mute'

  • @AndriyVasylenko
    @AndriyVasylenko 3 года назад +1701

    They missed an opportunity to do the most epic rickroll ever with that chute riddle.

    • @parallaxperception4971
      @parallaxperception4971 3 года назад +15

      ayy

    • @MichaelOnines
      @MichaelOnines 3 года назад +101

      B E S U R E TO D R I N K Y O U R O V A L T I N E

    • @terryboyer1342
      @terryboyer1342 3 года назад +38

      @@MichaelOnines killroy was here

    • @TomLeg
      @TomLeg 3 года назад +222

      It would be wrong for a parachute to say, "Never gonna let you down"

    • @brianhaygood183
      @brianhaygood183 3 года назад +42

      But the chute did let them down!

  • @techman2553
    @techman2553 3 года назад +11

    Idea for next video: How will the thin Mars atmosphere effect the sound that is picked up by the microphones ? ( pitch, volume, etc )

  • @Chainsaw-ASMR
    @Chainsaw-ASMR 3 года назад +6

    10:40 Scott explains the code like it's nothing and my head explodes!

    • @snuffeldjuret
      @snuffeldjuret 3 года назад +1

      yeah, it didnt look very intuitive imo.

  • @honglianglim8637
    @honglianglim8637 3 года назад +294

    11:01
    Scott: And the direction becomes obvious.
    Me: What the heck is ERAD ?

    • @zombieaerospace5005
      @zombieaerospace5005 3 года назад +17

      E-RAD: electronic radiation
      Or I just might be hight too

    • @absurdengineering
      @absurdengineering 3 года назад +8

      E, rad stuff bro :)

    • @Kineth1
      @Kineth1 3 года назад +11

      Maybe it's a word scramble? We need to READ!

    • @Edax_Royeaux
      @Edax_Royeaux 3 года назад +9

      According to Wikipedia, ERAD is Endoplasmic-reticulum-associated protein degradation.

    • @CleverClothe
      @CleverClothe 3 года назад +3

      "Who is LEON?"

  • @Velodictorian
    @Velodictorian 3 года назад +83

    The mic mechanically didn’t fail during EDL. The recording just didn’t happen because of some software error. They fixed it and the mic was used to capture that wind gust

    • @trimeta
      @trimeta 3 года назад +58

      As the Manly Scot himself quipped on Twitter, the computer handling microphone input was running Linux, so of course it had audio issues.

    • @DrDeuteron
      @DrDeuteron 3 года назад +5

      I'm glad I didn't write that piece of software

    • @davidharrison7014
      @davidharrison7014 3 года назад +7

      Yet the first working microphone on another planet was during one of the Soviet Venera missions on Venus.
      You can hear banging and the loud drilling into the Venusian soil onboard.

    • @trimeta
      @trimeta 3 года назад +3

      @Game Over Nope. While Perseverance's main computers run specialized operating systems, the DSU, a specialized computer-on-module which collects and processes all the EDL data (the six cameras and one microphone), runs Linux.

    • @Misack8
      @Misack8 3 года назад +2

      @@trimeta They just runned alsamixer and then everything was fine.

  • @GameHut
    @GameHut 3 года назад +279

    Scott - pretty sure they showed two different cameras angles, not one, for the parachute opening, as you can tell by the shadows on the cables and position of the sun.

    • @Jon1010
      @Jon1010 3 года назад +48

      And the markings on the chute are rotated in the two different views...

    • @jeggehek6934
      @jeggehek6934 3 года назад +24

      @@Jon1010 yeah it’s really clear that it’s 2 angles

    • @jimbobmp78
      @jimbobmp78 3 года назад +6

      yup the parachute is 2 diff angles and i swear i wathed the nasa press conf. were they played the sounds from the microphone as it came down.

    • @wulf2121
      @wulf2121 3 года назад +8

      They indeed said during the press conference that there were 3 chute look up cameras, but only 2 of them worked, one failed. So, they probably showed us both views.

    • @CodingSecrets
      @CodingSecrets 3 года назад +4

      @@wulf2121 Yes - I was just pointing out that Scott said there was only one view (at the start of the video)

  • @carlrossi7989
    @carlrossi7989 3 года назад +15

    I think the gentleman who once said [long before there was a JPL] “Far better, to dare mighty things....” would have loved watching this.

  • @ThatGuy-sd3zl
    @ThatGuy-sd3zl 3 года назад +40

    “And that was better than any touch down in the Super Bowl”
    Didn’t know physicists could flex that much 💪🏻.

    • @SuperAWaC
      @SuperAWaC 3 года назад +2

      It's really unnecessary and just comes off as a pseudo-intellectual "I'm too smart for sportsball" statement.

    • @ikitclaw7146
      @ikitclaw7146 3 года назад +3

      When physics flex's you know it, just look at nukes lol

    • @Terminator484
      @Terminator484 3 года назад +1

      @@SuperAWaC Those who can't think or do anything useful, waste their lives playing & watching sports. :P

    • @SuperAWaC
      @SuperAWaC 3 года назад

      ​@@Terminator484 i can't tell if you're being serious or not but if you are being serious that's one of the most brainless statements i've seen all week. if you're not being serious then good job

  • @milolouis
    @milolouis 3 года назад +213

    DID IT AGAIN!!! Best space commentator on earth.

    • @nolanwestrich2602
      @nolanwestrich2602 3 года назад +1

      He'd be better as a space commenter in space.

    • @lorenzo42p
      @lorenzo42p 3 года назад +1

      definitely best. very good presentation of information

  • @GunGryphon
    @GunGryphon 3 года назад +2

    The first audio back from Mars:
    "Hi, we've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty."

  • @MrBraleysWildClassroom
    @MrBraleysWildClassroom 3 года назад +5

    You know it’s a good video when you’re inspired to run to the white board to prepare a new lesson for math class tomorrow. Learning binary, math mystery, and Mars 2020?!? Let’s go!

  • @tayzer22
    @tayzer22 3 года назад +79

    Absolutely Amazing. "Live" HD footage of a probe landing on Mars. Galileo would be speechless.

    • @anatoliy333
      @anatoliy333 3 года назад +8

      Glory to Galileo!

    • @liberty0758
      @liberty0758 3 года назад

      Of course he would, seeing all that CGI bullshit they're presenting as real.

    • @falcoperegrinus82
      @falcoperegrinus82 3 года назад +1

      @@liberty0758 What's your best evidence this is fake?

  • @jnelchef
    @jnelchef 3 года назад +33

    Whenever something happens in space flight, my first question is how long until the Scott Manley video.

  • @frios011
    @frios011 3 года назад +1

    America does it again! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!

  • @brianschiff35
    @brianschiff35 3 года назад +39

    Next Mars Rover, let’s add a speaker 🔈 to play La Cucaracha as it drives around.

    • @floydlooney6837
      @floydlooney6837 3 года назад +7

      Speaker is a great idea, how does the Mars atmosphere affect the known sounds it plays.

    • @Anvilshock
      @Anvilshock 3 года назад

      Better play Slim Whitman's "Indian Love Call". You know, in case of ACK ACK ACK.

    • @johnpooky84
      @johnpooky84 3 года назад

      If you're going to have a speaker on a rover on Mars, the rover must be named Rick Roller, and the speaker must play "Never Gonna Give You Up".

  • @kenjiokura7601
    @kenjiokura7601 3 года назад +13

    I also like how at ~5:29 and at ~6:27 we can see Perseverance lower the back wheels to prepare for landing.

  • @luckyrail23
    @luckyrail23 3 года назад +74

    This is amazing, As a person working for KSP once said..: Making History.

  • @Owl90
    @Owl90 3 года назад +1

    I feel so very fortunate to be able to watch this.

  • @Mohawks_and_Tomahawks
    @Mohawks_and_Tomahawks 3 года назад +5

    5:48 "And that was better than any TouchDown in the SuperBowl!"
    It was also 100% more TouchDowns than the KC Chiefs got too!

    • @Kyrelel
      @Kyrelel 3 года назад

      You might want to double-check that maths.

    • @Mohawks_and_Tomahawks
      @Mohawks_and_Tomahawks 3 года назад +4

      @@Kyrelel Sure, let's do it together...
      Perseverance touched down 1 time on Mars.
      KC Chiefs did not even get 1 touchdown in SuperBowl 55.
      1-0 = 100% more.
      Now you know...

    • @Nigerian_Prince_
      @Nigerian_Prince_ 3 года назад +3

      @@Kyrelel LOL, The Chiefs didn't get a TD. Mars rover did. His math is correct.

    • @Gas_Station_Tampons
      @Gas_Station_Tampons 3 года назад +3

      I loved every one of those TD's in the SuperBowl
      31-9 😂
      KC 💩
      TB12 🐐

    • @Mohawks_and_Tomahawks
      @Mohawks_and_Tomahawks 3 года назад +2

      @@Gas_Station_Tampons Agreed 🍻

  • @jonathanmvkhai
    @jonathanmvkhai 3 года назад +209

    “The first USB 3.0 on Mars.”

    • @Charonupthekuiper
      @Charonupthekuiper 3 года назад +28

      Damn, I haven’t even got it on Earth.

    • @fensoxx
      @fensoxx 3 года назад +60

      I wonder how many times they had to flip the plug during assembly

    • @MattNeufy
      @MattNeufy 3 года назад +25

      @@fensoxx at least 3 times guaranteed

    • @r3dp9
      @r3dp9 3 года назад +12

      @@fensoxx More likely, they looked at the plug 3 times before trying to plug it in.

    • @ikitclaw7146
      @ikitclaw7146 3 года назад +1

      yes and whats your point? we all heard him say it.

  • @TopHatJackStudios
    @TopHatJackStudios 3 года назад +15

    This entire sequence is absolutely breathtaking. What a time to be alive!

  • @TheDrakenZ
    @TheDrakenZ 3 года назад +5

    It's pretty incredible that everything being currently sent to mars, will one day be the hosts of mars archeological dig sites in the future.

  • @Gallyga
    @Gallyga 3 года назад

    The clarity in pictures and videos we are now getting from devices sent to other planets is amazing.

  • @Publius7619
    @Publius7619 3 года назад +46

    Scott - It's a very simple code
    Me - *can't figure it out*

    • @hexagonist23
      @hexagonist23 3 года назад +6

      I figured it was binary code but didn't know it was formatted that way

    • @wictimovgovonca320
      @wictimovgovonca320 3 года назад +3

      It looked like binary to me, but I was too lazy to pause the video and try

    • @johnrex5342
      @johnrex5342 3 года назад +7

      Thanks for being brave enough to admit that. I thought about alphabet positions in binary, but what threw me off was the 7 bits per letter when 5 would suffice. It's only "simple" once it's pointed out to you. Plus there are large chunks that don't represent anything except the orientation of the chute (I think). Still pretty cool, though.

    • @Publius7619
      @Publius7619 3 года назад

      @@johnrex5342 Cool, thanks

    • @NemoConsequentae
      @NemoConsequentae 3 года назад +8

      Like many things, it's easy when you know how...

  • @benistingray6097
    @benistingray6097 3 года назад +30

    I was so impressed how stable it was hovering there and deploying the rover!

    • @02markcal
      @02markcal 3 года назад +2

      Do you think China will land its rover without problems in a few months?

    • @matthewerwin4677
      @matthewerwin4677 3 года назад +4

      @@02markcal China will spread the virus on Mars.

    • @02markcal
      @02markcal 3 года назад +5

      @@matthewerwin4677 I hope they follow the USA and sterilize their rover.

    • @KDH-br6hy
      @KDH-br6hy 3 года назад +1

      @@02markcal me too

    • @incognitoburrito6020
      @incognitoburrito6020 3 года назад +5

      @@matthewerwin4677 Assuming China's telling the telling the truth about their numbers, the US is the one you gotta worry about bringing the virus anywhere. We have over 300 times the positive cases they ever did.

  • @memespeech
    @memespeech 3 года назад

    better quality adds to the feeling of presence, which makes these shots surreal

  • @jbjuggler
    @jbjuggler 3 года назад

    Thanks for decoding the parachute! Nice to see them having fun...

  • @ioresult
    @ioresult 3 года назад +23

    "Thanks for flying us, Sky Crane! Fly... to victory!" Haha!

  • @Confuseddave
    @Confuseddave 3 года назад +12

    9:30 While I'm sure you're right that the skycrane doesn't have much in the way of guidance, at the press conference they pointed out that it can't just shoot off in any direction (or straight up), it needs to specifically pitch either north or south so that the thrusters (with their 1000º exhausts) are never pointed directly at the rover.

    • @Kineth1
      @Kineth1 3 года назад +3

      This is an excellent opportunity to make a pun confusing thermal degrees with arc degrees, but I can't think of one :/

    • @claudiusdunclius2045
      @claudiusdunclius2045 3 года назад

      Right. I think at the presser they said the rover is pointed to the southeast. The skycrane departed to the northwest, as you can see in the annotated MRO image at 1:02.

  • @MyTeslaTrek
    @MyTeslaTrek 3 года назад +4

    I always say out loud with you, “Fly Safe!” But, this time you fooled me! 🤣

  • @charlesballard5251
    @charlesballard5251 3 года назад

    I came to you for Kerbal instruciton, but your real space vids are magnificent!!!!!! Don't ever stop.

  • @poneill65
    @poneill65 3 года назад +7

    "Thanks for flying us Sky-Crane! Fly,... to victory????
    C'mon, "...To Infinity and Beyond" was just begging to be deployed there!

  • @junrosamura645
    @junrosamura645 3 года назад +34

    Yes, that sky crane flying away also reminded of that drop ship from aliens.

  • @sophrapsune
    @sophrapsune 3 года назад

    That is outrageously cool.
    Congratulations to the engineers who must have put their hearts into that device.

  • @pizzajona
    @pizzajona 3 года назад +35

    “Fly to victory!”
    - Skycrane crashes

    • @NemoConsequentae
      @NemoConsequentae 3 года назад +3

      Killing it's arch-enemy, that area of the unblemished surface of Mars.

    • @rarewhiteape
      @rarewhiteape 3 года назад +1

      They obviously loaded a Spectrum emulator playing Lemmings into the thing.

    • @_TheDudeAbides_
      @_TheDudeAbides_ 3 года назад +1

      As it crashes down a little martian bug looks up to the sky and says: "Oh no, not again!"

    • @NemoConsequentae
      @NemoConsequentae 3 года назад

      @@_TheDudeAbides_ Only if Arthur Dent was working on the program!

  • @paulhaynes8045
    @paulhaynes8045 3 года назад +11

    Glad I've lived to see this. Makes up a little for the long wait after Apollo. Thanks Scott.

    • @95rav
      @95rav 3 года назад

      Or did you see it?
      All the retards will come out from under their rocks with conspiracy theories about how this is was all faked by Kubric before he died.

    • @Jesse__H
      @Jesse__H 3 года назад

      @@95rav Try not to let that ruin it for you. Better to occupy your mind with this exceptional human achievement than the tiny, loud minority who decry it. We don't owe them any of our precious attention.

  • @danieltaylor5231
    @danieltaylor5231 3 года назад +109

    Tell me someone said "Detach cables" and someone else responded "Cables detached!"

    • @Imbeachedwhale
      @Imbeachedwhale 3 года назад +7

      You know whoever wrote the code made some form of internal joke about that.

    • @Charmlethehedgehog
      @Charmlethehedgehog 3 года назад

      @@Imbeachedwhale in the comments somewhere, for sure

    • @alantownsend5468
      @alantownsend5468 3 года назад +2

      I'm racking my brain here... what movie is that from?!

    • @Imbeachedwhale
      @Imbeachedwhale 3 года назад +22

      @@alantownsend5468 Empire Strikes Back, snowspeeders vs. AT-ATs

    • @andrewdeering6520
      @andrewdeering6520 3 года назад +1

      @@Imbeachedwhale ohhh, I get it now!

  • @tactileslut
    @tactileslut 3 года назад +2

    "The real science will start to soon." Love ya, man.

  • @veryunusual126
    @veryunusual126 3 года назад +1

    this was too awesome...
    a VIDEO from mars?!?!?
    wow

  • @5301abhi
    @5301abhi 3 года назад +12

    I really though the sky was going to be darker and more orange, but now I realize that Mars’ color comes from the soil and unless there is a huge dust storm, it would look quite similar to earths. It’s really cool!

    • @ronwesilen4536
      @ronwesilen4536 3 года назад +1

      I think that's not correct to be fair. It looks blue because of the dust the rockets blew up. When it settles i think it will be a lot more orange

    • @MattMcIrvin
      @MattMcIrvin 3 года назад

      The color balance in these images is, as Scott said, all over the place. But the air usually seems to be dusty and thin enough that it's some shade of tan most of the time, dominated by dust rather than Rayleigh scattering. The sky color does vary a lot. I think the blue that Scott mentioned in the images looking up at the sky crane is from Mie scattering, which is by dust particles but very small ones, like smoke.

  • @mvmmotovlogmusic2815
    @mvmmotovlogmusic2815 3 года назад +3

    Thank You Scott. Whenever something significant happens in space exploration, it’s not complete until you cover it. 👍🏻

  • @Josh-of-all-Trades
    @Josh-of-all-Trades 3 года назад +2

    I absolutely love the newest and greatest cameras in space. I grew up seeing old fuzzy (sometimes b&w) shots of various men walking on the moon, and it disconnects me from the concept. But now with these beautifully full color 4k shots, it seems a lot more real. I love seeing SpaceX's live video from inside the faring during separation, I love seeing the skycrane gently lowering Perseverance to the Martian ground, and I love seeing astronauts during a space walk outside the ISS. The reality of it is much more potent, like I can experience it myself if I were there.

  • @cut--
    @cut-- 3 года назад

    that parachute deployment is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen - if I'd seen on earth it wouldn't a big deal BUT having work so smoothly @ 132.52 million miles away.. sigh.. PERFECTION

  • @Appolonius10
    @Appolonius10 3 года назад +3

    Good ending Scott, yes that sky crane deserves a lot of recognition. It’s a beautiful machine that served a noble purpose.

    • @mtpaley1
      @mtpaley1 3 года назад +3

      It lives on in Valhalla

  • @ryanhamstra49
    @ryanhamstra49 3 года назад +267

    Should have closed with “drive safe!”

    • @8bviews91
      @8bviews91 3 года назад

      @@scrambles1944 my channel has the title of most viewed video.

    • @8bviews91
      @8bviews91 3 года назад

      my channel has the title of most viewed video.

    • @theairaccumulator7144
      @theairaccumulator7144 3 года назад +2

      @@8bviews91 how old are you

    • @Tjalve70
      @Tjalve70 3 года назад

      Or he should have ended with "Thanks for flying safe!".

    • @Kineth1
      @Kineth1 3 года назад +2

      @@theairaccumulator7144 When i see an account spamming the same comment like that, i just go through and report all of their (identical) comments as spam.

  • @TheNormalUniverse
    @TheNormalUniverse 3 года назад

    Fitting commemoration of the historic event. Thanks Scott.

  • @flashladderacrobat
    @flashladderacrobat 3 года назад

    Best thing to happen this year so far , keep it coming JPL and NASA!

  • @runningray
    @runningray 3 года назад +13

    Mars is a beautifully quiet place. I can imagine standing there and just listening to the wind blow by.

    • @stevencoardvenice
      @stevencoardvenice 3 года назад +4

      You'd probably start losing your mind though after a couple hours, from sensory deprivation

    • @dantreadwell7421
      @dantreadwell7421 3 года назад

      I don't know, being able to appreciate and enjoy the stark beauty of things like that, the emptyness of a desert, the dead of winter, it has an appeal.

    • @Kyrelel
      @Kyrelel 3 года назад

      If you were standing there, you would be in a spacesuit. If you were in a spacesuit you would not only hear the wind but feel it as well. If, as is likely to happen, the high-velocity particles would tear into your suit, so you could smell and taste it as well.
      As you would also have a visor, and could see the wind patterns, you would have experienced the wind with all 5 senses. Not what I would call "sensory deprivation"
      Zoom-classes just aren't cutting it :/

    • @stevencoardvenice
      @stevencoardvenice 3 года назад

      @@Kyrelel
      What are you talking about bro? You wouldn't hear anything inside the helmet, except your own breathing. There are no sounds of nature, and you would barely feel any wind at all. Mars has only 2 percent of earth's atmosphere. And there are no high velocity particles that you would feel

  • @jtdHenk
    @jtdHenk 3 года назад +48

    I watched the NASA video thinking Scott Manley wil analyse the crap out off it!

  • @kevinreardon2558
    @kevinreardon2558 3 года назад

    Thanks for gathering this all together. It makes my life easier.

  • @holyravioli5795
    @holyravioli5795 3 года назад

    Gorgeous, the sound was the best part.

  • @alihouadef5539
    @alihouadef5539 3 года назад +3

    THE SOUND man, more of that please.

  • @JohnFleshman
    @JohnFleshman 3 года назад +17

    I saw that pattern on the parachute I thought it looked like a bar code like on groceries.

  • @ClemensAlive
    @ClemensAlive 3 года назад +121

    Mars is the coldes hot looking place in our solar system.

    • @currentcomentor1026
      @currentcomentor1026 3 года назад +2

      Yeh it looks allot like the empty quater of the arabian dessert.

    • @5Andysalive
      @5Andysalive 3 года назад +7

      That's a very Earthophobic point of view. The Titanians go to Mars for summer holiday!

    • @e1123581321345589144
      @e1123581321345589144 3 года назад +1

      @@5Andysalive Europeans too

    • @TheMartieno
      @TheMartieno 3 года назад +1

      Does that make jupiter the hottest cold looking place ?

  • @clavo3352
    @clavo3352 3 года назад

    Nice one Scott! Thank YOu for that illuminating narrated video of the 2021 Mars landing of the Perseverance Rover, and its Skycrane maneuver.

  • @kwichzwellbreck3567
    @kwichzwellbreck3567 3 года назад +4

    Such a great start!! Those scientist at NASA and JPL are just awesome!

  • @myblujl7503
    @myblujl7503 3 года назад +8

    Anyone else feel sorry for sky crane? Once its successfully completed its mission, it was just ordered to "bugger off and die"....

    • @jessek8114
      @jessek8114 3 года назад

      Or heat shield or the orbital component that stayed behind.

    • @Wordsmiths
      @Wordsmiths 3 года назад +1

      My thought (and feel) exactly. Why not have it arc safely away and when it's a safe distance off (maybe a four-second acceleration burn), go into "try to set down any old place" mode. Even if it runs out of fuel too high and belly-flops hard, it won't vaporize and leave a crater like it would at re-entry velocity. And it's more likely to keep the wreckage in one limited area, easier to salvage it in the future (most likely for the alloys and maybe the wiring harness). Plus it's another experiment: did the sky crane manage a close-approach landing? At what point did it fail? How dry can you run those hydrazine tanks when actually performing in Martian gravity/atmosphere?
      Maybe next time...

  • @michaelhutton3642
    @michaelhutton3642 3 года назад

    Absolutely amazing to hear the wind ON MARS!!! Fantastic, informative video. Thanks very much.

  • @ThompPL1
    @ThompPL1 3 года назад

    5:27 . . . stunning color contrasts of reds/oranges looking down & blues/whites looking up !

  • @jacoposilvestri543
    @jacoposilvestri543 3 года назад +4

    the footage is really breathtaking

  • @jabbawok944
    @jabbawok944 3 года назад +58

    I know what that microphone is going to pick up..... “Ack ack ack ack”

  • @GregoryLamoureux1
    @GregoryLamoureux1 3 года назад +1

    Thanks Scott for another amazing video! I love your technical analysis and summary of these important events.

  • @tjairicciardi9747
    @tjairicciardi9747 3 года назад +1

    Another amazing video, thanks Scott !!

  • @hjalfi
    @hjalfi 3 года назад +27

    Personally, I prefer to think that DARE was a reference to the long-running British comic series, _Dan Dare,_ in which the main character visited Mars often, and saved it several times.

    • @godless-clump-of-cells
      @godless-clump-of-cells 3 года назад

      Place your comma inside the low line like this "_Dan Dare,_" and, voila! _Dan Dare,_

    • @desmond-hawkins
      @desmond-hawkins 3 года назад

      The first thing I thought of was "DARE to resist…" 😐

    • @hjalfi
      @hjalfi 3 года назад +1

      @@godless-clump-of-cells Huh. Cheers. Of course, now the comma is italicised, which offends my pedant's soul.

    • @hjalfi
      @hjalfi 3 года назад

      @@Iam2sheds Dan Dare doesn't know it, he doesn't know it, he doesn't know it, but I liked the Mekon.

    • @ccarson
      @ccarson 3 года назад

      The first thing I thought of was Dare Iced Coffee.

  • @SithPackAbs
    @SithPackAbs 3 года назад +7

    So cool! Thank you, Scott! The two downvotes are from Martians who have to clean-up all the trash from the heat shield and drop-ship.

  • @sanjayrshinde
    @sanjayrshinde 3 года назад

    Excellent explanation. Thanks Scott.

  • @__SKYNET__
    @__SKYNET__ 3 года назад

    Absolutely epic and phenomenal footage!!

  • @stevierv22
    @stevierv22 3 года назад +22

    Should have coded "fly safe" xD

  • @lrees6412
    @lrees6412 3 года назад +18

    Your video is broken down so well and discussed about the best on the internet that's why I subscribe to your Channel

  • @Swimfinz
    @Swimfinz 3 года назад

    Great podcast, thank you Scott!

  • @mikal4452
    @mikal4452 3 года назад +1

    Quite possibly the most amazing video I have seen.

  • @Space_Maniac
    @Space_Maniac 3 года назад +20

    last time i was this early you woke up at 2 Am to tell us about how SN4 exploded

  • @mossm717
    @mossm717 3 года назад +11

    If you’re interested, it’d be really cool to see how the rover manages to operate on just over 100w of power

    • @sparkequinox
      @sparkequinox 3 года назад +10

      The RTG generates 100w-ish, but it actually still charges batteries on board for things that require peak power in excess of 100W.

    • @yumazster
      @yumazster 3 года назад +4

      Isn't the waste heat from the rtg used to keep components from freezing? That must be a huge saving not to run electric heaters as previous solar powered rovers had to.

    • @KevinSmith-ys3mh
      @KevinSmith-ys3mh 3 года назад +1

      @@yumazster Exactly my thought process, if Spirit & Opportunity rovers had been equipped with even undersized (vs total power budget) RTGs to provide basic heating plus some bonus electric power, they may still be doing some useful science data transmissions, even if only as weather stations!
      Their successful missions may have pushed up the confidence level for follow up rovers investment$$ and survivability tho!

  • @davey3765
    @davey3765 3 года назад

    Another excellent video Scott thanks!

  • @Sgt_Bill_T_Co
    @Sgt_Bill_T_Co 3 года назад

    One of the better videos, with explanations, thanks!