Good morning, Mars Guy. Happy to hear the rover is making progress and hasn't fallen into any sand filled craters :) Always my happy moment when I realize it's our Sunday morning update :)
Those sand storms, not as violent as depicted in that Hollywood movie, but enough to shutdown the Opportunity rover, which was a sad day. Thanks Mars Guy 👍💪✌
Your videos are so good, I started looking for other geology-based videos. My 2nd favorite so far (you're still #1) is Nick Zentner of Central WA University and his series on the Great Missoula Flood and other WA oriented geologic stuff. Not bad for a guy who only took Geology 101 in college because I didn't like the time of day the chemistry class met.
I think it's there, it's just that with the low angle view, and relatively flat terrain, it doesn't look much different than the rest of the ripples in the terrain. I think if the rover went right up to it, there would be a noticeable depression there.
The difference between a vertical view and a side view is often surprising. Too bad Ingenuity was not able to continue long enough to reach some of these interesting features where the view from above would be helpful. From a field geology perspective, though, the crater is too eroded to have useful outcrops, so I understand why Perseverance moved on without looking closer.
How fascinating. Are the pictures from Highrise much older than the pictures from Perseverance? The crater is so obvious from orbit and quite invisible at ground level. Also, if Highrise can show us the rock Mars Guy so wonderfully gives us perspective of, could Highrise identify Mars Guy if he were actually standing next to the rock when the picture was taken? Whatever the answer, Highrise has an INCREDABLE camera! Once again, THANK YOU, Mars Guy, for the best channel with the greatest info regarding the Mars missions.
That little crater is thousands to maybe even millions of years old. The HiRISE images are just a few years old, so the erosion and infill have been going on for a long time. And yes someday when real astronauts are there, a camera like this could identify them.
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Could these recently filled in creators be a danger to a heavy vehicle/robot like Perseverance? My thought is because the sand that fills these creators are not compacted so to a certain degree would it be like quick sand?
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Sadly, you don't mention the even smaller one. Though I have incidentally noticed that Mars Guy leaves no footprints (boot falls), amplifying his carefully managed low impact on the Martian environment - kudos.
Possibly a speck of dust on the lens or an image artifact. I think it's very unlikely that it's actually a flying object as it would have to be pretty big to be visible at the apparent distance and the wind on Mars isn't going to carry something that big aloft.
Curious, if the crater has almost vanished after 10 years due to 'weathering', then why are river courses still visible since they apparently dried up billions of years ago?
Could it be that since Mars is smaller than Earth, "things are hidden sooner"? It is possible that the cavity of the crater that you mention is there but its study is not of interest, or that it is difficult to access due to sand or landslides, or that Percy "has not stretched his neck properly." 🙂
SHARP EYE🏆 RIGHT THERE IN PLAIN SIGHT‼️THANK YOU Doubt Mars Guy noticed. Best to Not Ask Because The Answer will Be Part of the Rover that Blew off or The Broken Blade from the Copter that Got sucked up from a Dust Devil, They get quite Large in Mars Thin Atmosphere. and it sure as Hell doesn’t look like Phobos or Deimos. YEA MARS GUY You seem to be a Truthful Guy, WHAT SAY YOU OF WHAT THE OBJECT IS @ 3:03 IN FOOTAGE?
There seems to be something sticking out from the distant ridge in the horizon at 3.20, left of the upper end of the red arrow. Any ideas what that might be?
I don't believe we were given enough data to appreciate the time scales. Approximately how much time elapsed between when the satellite image shows a clear crater AND now -- when Perseverance finds it mostly filled-up by Wind-Blown Dust? We shouldn't surmise it was filled-up with Dust in Two-Days, right? ☆☆
@MarsGuy Thank-you -- my simple question was: how long elapsed between when our satellite imagery was produced showing the crater was largely empty AND now, when Perseverance is looking for it? I ask because one might presume NASA took all-new satellite photos approximately when Perseverance landed in February 2021 and thus one would surmise the crater filled with dust in JUST 3.5-Earth-years, right? OR: hella-less time because NASA took fresh overhead photos more recently than 3.5 year ago. How crazy are we? ☆☆
Until somebody shows me a riverbed that has a river rocks in it I'll never believe that there was water on Mars. You say perseverance landed right there while those rocks I'm looking at are all fractured sediment rocks. Those aren't any River Rocks anywhere there. Where are the River Rocks
They Got Astronauts For that 😹 Allegedly Antigravity was Overcome in late 50’s. Jets and Rockets 🚀 used sparingly with enough time and money they can design and build anything that can be imagined. Efficiency and waste has been their Problem taking 3 Employees to screw in a Lightbulb. ELON has shown what can be done in spite of Government Bureaucracy riding his back. Learn about the Origins of NASA and Early History. THEY KILLED the Crew of Challenger by knowing the Seals were Faulty in Cold Temperatures and After Being Warned by Engineers to not launch, Did Anyway to Not Spoil the Show🎭 We all got A Shocking Show when it Blew up and Crew lived until hitting The water. They just are not what they could be as Portrayed in public view For Optics. Am not Against them, They should be operating in highest standards and respecting of Transparency.
Every Report A Little Something New Looking forward to seeing actual Anomaly Investigated, Rover always Seems to shy away from Closer inspection. Like doorhandle looking Protusions that appeared To be metal sticking up No Laser testing composition or Macro lens Taking detailed closer Exam. Only one example. No mention of the Two Hot Spots where Isotopes reveal Evidence of past Nuclear Detonation air bursts. Experts Pretty well Know likelihood of intelligent occupation before the atmosphere was destroyed leaving Mars Cold and Dry. Any Survivors retreating underground. Great to learn more about the Geology, and will be more interesting when Secrets of More Being hidden are Made Public. NASA has Earned a Reputation for Being Sneaky and Not Forthcoming of what they know. Never A Straight Answer. Hiding Discoveries on Moon and Mars, Even Lying about the Color of the Sky. Citizens pay for All their Toys and Adventures. Then Take the Ball 🏀 home with them when they leave. Citizens deserve more than being Kept in the dark and fed Crumbs when there is Steak on the Table. Appreciate your Reports❇️
Check your audio before you post: you are slurring over important words and names. Might be an inherited speech defect or laziness. Your information is too important and entertaining to miss parts of it. AI text to speech is cheap now. south Florida
I hope he never resorts to AI speech. I find him very clear and easy to understand. Maybe you have an inherited hearing defect or laziness. Seriously, do you realize how disrespectful your comment is?
Hidden in plain sight. Interesting impactful and thought provoking observations. The view (2:10) has grey and red colored surface, while Perseverance view (2:22) doesn't have much grey tones. Wondering how much lighting angle may have effected an orbital crater reveal. Perhaps a time-lapse, or a flicker-cam view of two images hours apart would reveal changes in shadows, and thus better perspective of the crater topology?
Spirit, Opportunity, and recently Ginny... Thank you for your service and for sparking _so many_ people's interest in Mars, NASA, and engineering/rovers! ♥️ 🫡 Anyways, this episode reminds me of Star Wars EP 2, where Obi-Wan is trying to find a planet that wasn't showing up in the database... 😅
Thanks!
I'm super thankful to get Super Thanks from you! I really appreciate your support for this channel. Helps keep it going.
I look forward to your analysis videos every week. Thanks very much for the effort and the knowledge. Simply fascinating as an armchair geologist.
Thanks, glad to have armchair geologists watching!
One of the best shows on RUclips 🤩👍
Thanks for that!
This is where Ingenuity the Mars copter would come in handy as a scout.
Actually, it's possible to discern the top of the rim of the crater just below the big rock.
Your confidence in identifying an invisible feature is commendable.
As always interesting and informative, I always feel I am hearing from an expert bringing real world experience to what is to be seen. Thanks!
Thanks, happy to share expertise from my field with interested viewers.
Thanks Mars Guy!
Yep!
This phenomenon sort of reminds me of LIDAR imagery on earth that sometimes reveals buried shapes or structures. The Carolina Bays come to mind.
Wow, interesting and fun post. Thanks, Mars Guy.
Thanks again.
Good morning, Mars Guy. Happy to hear the rover is making progress and hasn't fallen into any sand filled craters :) Always my happy moment when I realize it's our Sunday morning update :)
Always happy to get your feedback :)
Those sand storms, not as violent as depicted in that Hollywood movie, but enough to shutdown the Opportunity rover, which was a sad day.
Thanks Mars Guy 👍💪✌
Yeah, all is takes is prolonged dust blotting out the Sun for a solar powered rover to succumb. But nearly 15 years is a crazy long life.
Another very interesting video
Thanks, glad you think so.
Your videos are so good, I started looking for other geology-based videos. My 2nd favorite so far (you're still #1) is Nick Zentner of Central WA University and his series on the Great Missoula Flood and other WA oriented geologic stuff. Not bad for a guy who only took Geology 101 in college because I didn't like the time of day the chemistry class met.
Thanks for the really encouraging feedback. And good choice on Geology 101!
Good morning MG that was excellent it shows that the planet is alive and well.
Thanks. Certainly Mars is still actively eroding.
I think it's there, it's just that with the low angle view, and relatively flat terrain, it doesn't look much different than the rest of the ripples in the terrain. I think if the rover went right up to it, there would be a noticeable depression there.
Thinking about Opportunity reminded me - I haven’t heard about what Curiosity is doing in a while.
Neat
Greatly appreciated
How old are the HiRISE orbital images? Amazing the craters have filled in so much
This crater is probably thousands to millions of years old.
On the back looking view you can just make out the crater.
Happy Sunday!
The difference between a vertical view and a side view is often surprising. Too bad Ingenuity was not able to continue long enough to reach some of these interesting features where the view from above would be helpful. From a field geology perspective, though, the crater is too eroded to have useful outcrops, so I understand why Perseverance moved on without looking closer.
I feel that in these parts (VA) it is the vegetation that cover up and fill up any ground shapes rather quickly... Thx Mars Guy.
Now if only we could get potholes to fill in like that 😄
I worry those house-sized craters aren't filling in but crusting over.
3:15 They didn't released a view of the Jezero Crater in HQ yet ? I bet the picture would be fabulous
How fascinating. Are the pictures from Highrise much older than the pictures from Perseverance? The crater is so obvious from orbit and quite invisible at ground level. Also, if Highrise can show us the rock Mars Guy so wonderfully gives us perspective of, could Highrise identify Mars Guy if he were actually standing next to the rock when the picture was taken? Whatever the answer, Highrise has an INCREDABLE camera! Once again, THANK YOU, Mars Guy, for the best channel with the greatest info regarding the Mars missions.
That little crater is thousands to maybe even millions of years old. The HiRISE images are just a few years old, so the erosion and infill have been going on for a long time. And yes someday when real astronauts are there, a camera like this could identify them.
The rock is very special can you show us a closer look. ??
Bingo
The only one who transmits the authentic news of the other world in the format of people. Your calm voice has become part of the landscape of another planet for humans. When the next amazing movie about the red planet appears, your voice should be taken into account for a more realistic look
3:05 I wonder what it would be like to stand there in person looking across the hazy Jezero Crater.
Amazing❇️
Dress warm
It's not that great. I was there 2 years ago on vacation. Sidebar: The buffet at the hotel restaurant was a really good value though.
Could these recently filled in creators be a danger to a heavy vehicle/robot like Perseverance?
My thought is because the sand that fills these creators are not compacted so to a certain degree would it be like quick sand?
Not the same
Yet Deeper Loose Sand
is Definitely a Hazard
that can bog a rover
And has. Nobody coming
To tow or dig out.
Rite Mars Dude, Just like my tools in the workshop, hiding in plain sight. I put them down and they disappear 🤔Stay safe n well Dr. Steve will start calling you Dr Mars Dude! TFS, GB :)
Ha ha!
I wonder how big the object was that impacted the surface to create a crater that size.
Likely about two meters
Or less in size depending
On how dense.
@@nicksavage4763 probably much smaller
Sadly, you don't mention the even smaller one. Though I have incidentally noticed that Mars Guy leaves no footprints (boot falls), amplifying his carefully managed low impact on the Martian environment - kudos.
Ha ha! And yes, the smaller crater is even less recognizable on the ground.
I wonder if it's still there perhaps without the jagged edge. But it's basically a Martian Ha-Ha (the landscaping term)
2:30 Can someone explain what this 'soaring eagle'-like object, slightly left of centre, above the horizon is?
Possibly a speck of dust on the lens or an image artifact.
I think it's very unlikely that it's actually a flying object as it would have to be pretty big to be visible at the apparent distance and the wind on Mars isn't going to carry something that big aloft.
That's a long recognized artifact in the left Navcam camera. It does not appear in the right camera
Curious, if the crater has almost vanished after 10 years due to 'weathering', then why are river courses still visible since they apparently dried up billions of years ago?
Could it be that since Mars is smaller than Earth, "things are hidden sooner"? It is possible that the cavity of the crater that you mention is there but its study is not of interest, or that it is difficult to access due to sand or landslides, or that Percy "has not stretched his neck properly." 🙂
What is in the sky at 3:03???
Maybe dust on the lens?
@@widmo206or a scratch
SHARP EYE🏆
RIGHT THERE IN PLAIN SIGHT‼️THANK YOU
Doubt Mars Guy noticed.
Best to Not Ask
Because The Answer will
Be Part of the Rover that
Blew off or The Broken Blade from the Copter that
Got sucked up from a
Dust Devil, They get quite
Large in Mars Thin Atmosphere. and it sure as
Hell doesn’t look like Phobos or Deimos.
YEA MARS GUY
You seem to be a Truthful Guy, WHAT SAY YOU OF
WHAT THE OBJECT IS
@ 3:03 IN FOOTAGE?
The ghost of Ingenuity.
Alien Aircraft monitoring Perseverance.
😎👍
There seems to be something sticking out from the distant ridge in the horizon at 3.20, left of the upper end of the red arrow.
Any ideas what that might be?
It's a camera artifact. It appears in the left Navcam images but not the right Navcam images.
👋
Cool
I don't believe we were given enough data to appreciate the time scales. Approximately how much time elapsed between when the satellite image shows a clear crater AND now -- when Perseverance finds it mostly filled-up by Wind-Blown Dust? We shouldn't surmise it was filled-up with Dust in Two-Days, right? ☆☆
The crater is thousands or perhaps millions of years old, so no big differences between the orbital images and the ones from Perseverance.
@MarsGuy Thank-you -- my simple question was: how long elapsed between when our satellite imagery was produced showing the crater was largely empty AND now, when Perseverance is looking for it? I ask because one might presume NASA took all-new satellite photos approximately when Perseverance landed in February 2021 and thus one would surmise the crater filled with dust in JUST 3.5-Earth-years, right? OR: hella-less time because NASA took fresh overhead photos more recently than 3.5 year ago. How crazy are we? ☆☆
nah, i've always been more of a sneaker guy
what is in the sky at 2:29?
Some 🕳️ in One, NASA Engineer's must be avid ⛳🏌️😉
Why not stop and explore it anyway?
NOT🚫THE CRATER
HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT
Probably some Martian guy covered it 👽
Until somebody shows me a riverbed that has a river rocks in it I'll never believe that there was water on Mars. You say perseverance landed right there while those rocks I'm looking at are all fractured sediment rocks. Those aren't any River Rocks anywhere there. Where are the River Rocks
I imagine a very long period of the region being dry desert could have affected them
They're abundant on the delta fan deposit, not on the crater rim. See episode 99.
👍
NASA's propensity to build failed projects
is tremendous. How hard is it to mount a brush to clean a solar panel?
The problem might be that the dust is electrostatically charged and thus doesn't brush off.
Opportunity was projected for a ~90 day mission and suvived 15 years on Mars surface. I wouldn't call it a failure.
They Got Astronauts
For that 😹
Allegedly Antigravity was
Overcome in late 50’s.
Jets and Rockets 🚀
used sparingly
with enough time and money they can design and build anything that can be imagined. Efficiency and waste has been their
Problem taking 3 Employees to screw in a
Lightbulb.
ELON has shown what can be done in spite of
Government Bureaucracy
riding his back. Learn about the Origins of NASA
and Early History. THEY KILLED the Crew of
Challenger by knowing the
Seals were Faulty in Cold Temperatures and After Being Warned by Engineers to not launch,
Did Anyway to Not Spoil the Show🎭
We all got A Shocking Show when it Blew up
and Crew lived until hitting
The water. They just are not what they could be as
Portrayed in public view
For Optics. Am not Against them, They should be operating in highest standards and
respecting of Transparency.
red rover red rover send mars guy right over
Ha ha!
interesting
Every Report
A Little Something New
Looking forward to seeing
actual Anomaly Investigated, Rover always
Seems to shy away from
Closer inspection.
Like doorhandle looking
Protusions that appeared
To be metal sticking up
No Laser testing composition or Macro lens
Taking detailed closer
Exam. Only one example.
No mention of the Two Hot Spots where Isotopes
reveal Evidence of past
Nuclear Detonation air bursts. Experts Pretty well
Know likelihood of intelligent occupation before the atmosphere was destroyed leaving Mars Cold and Dry. Any
Survivors retreating underground. Great to learn more about the Geology, and will be more
interesting when Secrets
of More Being hidden are
Made Public. NASA has
Earned a Reputation for
Being Sneaky and Not Forthcoming of what they know. Never A Straight Answer. Hiding Discoveries on Moon and Mars, Even Lying about the Color of the Sky. Citizens pay for All their Toys and Adventures. Then Take the Ball 🏀 home with them when they leave. Citizens deserve more than being
Kept in the dark and fed
Crumbs when there is Steak on the Table.
Appreciate your Reports❇️
Pico crater
Could you turn off the mouse clicks in your presentation? Distracting, and irritating.
Check your audio before you post: you are slurring over important words and names. Might be an inherited speech defect or laziness. Your information is too important and entertaining to miss parts of it. AI text to speech is cheap now. south Florida
I hope he never resorts to AI speech.
I find him very clear and easy to understand. Maybe you have an inherited hearing defect or laziness.
Seriously, do you realize how disrespectful your comment is?
Hidden in plain sight. Interesting impactful and thought provoking observations.
The view (2:10) has grey and red colored surface, while Perseverance view (2:22) doesn't have much grey tones. Wondering how much lighting angle may have effected an orbital crater reveal. Perhaps a time-lapse, or a flicker-cam view of two images hours apart would reveal changes in shadows, and thus better perspective of the crater topology?
Spirit, Opportunity, and recently Ginny... Thank you for your service and for sparking _so many_ people's interest in Mars, NASA, and engineering/rovers! ♥️ 🫡
Anyways, this episode reminds me of Star Wars EP 2, where Obi-Wan is trying to find a planet that wasn't showing up in the database... 😅